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Man Builds 7-foot Grandfather Clock from Lego

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the snappy-timepieces dept.

Ravalox writes "Eric Harshbarger has built a 7-foot-tall grandfather clock exclusively from Lego. It keeps accurate time and needs no electricity; it needs to be weight reset every 13 hours. Other pictures include the gears, numbers, the face, and the pendulum mechanics."

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  1. just so you know.... by Lxy · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is the same Eric who built some guy's desk out of LEGO a few years back. He's been talked about on /. before, just check out his portfolio:

    http://www.ericharshbarger.org/lego/portfolio.html

    He's built clocks before, but I think this is his first working model. Of course, be sure to check out his Tux and BSD Daemon sculptures as well. This guy is a master at LEGO construction, and be sure to look for him in the future.

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  2. No Electricity.... by Gopal.V · · Score: 4, Informative

    Doesn't guy wrote this know that at the time when a these 6 foot wonders were invented, there WAS NO ELECTRICITY !!. It runs on pure potential energy stored in weights.

    The interesting part is that it would be much harder to make a real grandfather clock (like the one at my ancestral home) - because Lego in comparison is easier to build.

    But Kudos to the guy - it's not really pointless , it would have helped if this was part of at least a few mechanical engineer's curriculum - not just carnot cycle engines.

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  3. MIrrors by kerbe6 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Main
    Gears
    Numbers
    Face
    Mechanics

  4. Re:Google cache by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Why do people insist on using the google cache when the pictures tell most of the story. It's still pulling the pictures from the original souce.
    Now this coralized link on the other hand is pulling from the coral servers and since the pictures are relative (rather than absolute), coral works quite well.