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Clickspring
Personal blog · clickspringprojects.com/bloghardwareother
Clickspring is a personal blog at clickspringprojects.com about hardware. Since 2015, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Machine shop clock making videos”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Clickspring is a home machining website with a focus on clock making. Join me as I blog and video the process of making a clock from raw metal stock. You will see plenty of toolmaking video's too, as I make the tools required to make a clock.
Most-linked posts?
- Machine shop clock making videos4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-12-13
What Hacker News says?
The size of his shop also eliminates most "I don't have a space big enough" excuses. http://www.clickspringprojects.com/blog/from-little-things
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on “Ask HN: Favorite teachers on YouTube?”Submitted Machine shop clock making videos as a story · 4 points
HN discussionChris from Clickspring [1]. Perhaps a little off topic because his content is not specifically software, but given some other mentions of hardware and inspiration his videos are lovely to watch after a long day of code reviews. He recently completed a series building a brass skeleton clock and looks to have some more interesting things going on soon for anyone interested in building things other than software. [1] h…
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on “Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?”Where exactly does one go to school to be a watchmaker? Is there a place to read up on gear ratios/design patterns for complications, and for linking complications together to form the mechanical watch? Is there a watch designing application that would allow you to drop in a complication (however simple) and learn how all the gears perform the calculations needed for a complication? I find elite watch designers to b…
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on “One of the most complex wristwatches ever made”On a larger scale, you have Clickspring on Youtube who does wall clock machining. He's doing a series now on building the Antikythera mechanism. Even that's bloody impressive; then you can imagine squeezing the same into a 45x45x10 mm cylindre... http://www.clickspringprojects.com
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on “One of the most complex wristwatches ever made”I'm in more-or-less the same boat, so I sympathize. There are nooks and crannies in every big city where you could have a semblance of a shop, but you're right. It's hard. Especially when you're not sure how long you're going to be around, so it's tough to justify investing. That said, it is amazing how much some people do with so little. Look at Clickspring's work ( http://www.clickspringprojects.com/ ). The man is…
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on “Shop Class as Soulcraft (2006)”Videos on reconstruction: http://www.clickspringprojects.com/the-antikythera-mechanism...
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on “An Ancient Greek Astronomical Calculation Machine Reveals New Secrets”