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After hours of trying to work with ChatGPT to make my gradient clock idea come true I still did not solve the most important part which is how to show the time in between the four specified zones: dawn, midday, dusk and night. I have here code that only shows movement through the four stages … Continue reading Time code
This week I went to the Brooklyn Flea Market and went through a bunch of old watches in hopes of finding a mechanical watch that I can later take apart and inspect. Unfortunately, it seems like all the watches were quartz but I did bring home three that I thought had particularly interesting designs. I … Continue reading Timekeeper Design
For this assignment, I went with a conventional equatorial sundial. I found a drum (base?) on the junk shelf that had a perfect hole in the middle to stick a dowel through. So I wanted to rest the weight of the drum on the dowel and create the angle needed by adjusting where the dowel … Continue reading Sundial
Arthur Ganson – Beholding the Big Bang Longue durée It will take 13.7 billion years to turn the final gear in the train, embedded in a concrete block. This is the estimated age of the universe. Qlocktwo Displays time in word format on a grid of alphabets Dark – Time Machines Items used to time travel … Continue reading Timekeeper Artifacts