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The Pendulum
08/17/2025 at 17:29 • 0 commentsThere's not much mystery to the pendulum's design.
To keep the pendulum's performance harmonic 2⁰-4⁰ of displacement is typical. And a 1m pendulum length yields 2 π sqrt(L/g) ≈ 2s period. -
Success
08/17/2025 at 03:34 • 0 commentsMy first armature was an abject failure because the impulse faces (7mm) were too big.
The second armature print worked. After a some axle spacing adjustment, it completed 60 tick tocks in a minute-ish. I wasn't measuring, really just happy it continued tick-tocking.
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Notes
08/17/2025 at 02:48 • 0 commentsParts were designed in OpenSCAD, exported as STL and sliced using FlashForge's FlashPrint software using the "fine" settings (except for the pendulum mount for which precision wasn't important).
Parts were printed on a FlashForge Creator Pro (years old now).
The first armature had 7mm impulse faces which were way too wide.
Part Time to print PLA filament (m) escapement wheel 03:51 8.74 armature v1 (6mm thickness) 01:17 3.3 armature v2 (3mm thickness) 00:53 2.13 pendulum mount 00:32 1.8
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