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Re: Wobbly clock

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Post by CharlesW »

jedberg wrote: post #83

This clock is great for teaching kids how to tell time! When learning to read a "circle clock", they have a heck of a time understanding what it means when the hour hand is almost but not quite pointing at a number. So when it's 3:45 they will say 4:45 because they know the big hand on 9 means "45" but they get confused because the little hand is almost pointing at 4. This clock solves that problem. Anyone know if I…

> Anyone know if I can get this as an Apple Watch face?

Currently, 3rd parties can't create custom Apple Watch faces.

Re: Wobbly clock

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Post by layer8 »

jedberg wrote: post #83

This clock is great for teaching kids how to tell time! When learning to read a "circle clock", they have a heck of a time understanding what it means when the hour hand is almost but not quite pointing at a number. So when it's 3:45 they will say 4:45 because they know the big hand on 9 means "45" but they get confused because the little hand is almost pointing at 4. This clock solves that problem. Anyone know if I…

The real solution is they should say “a quarter to four”. ;)

Re: Wobbly clock

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Post by inanutshellus »

shagie wrote: post #79
inanutshellus wrote: post #76

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Using magnets would definitely make for a cooler look, but this effect can be done using nails of varying heights.

The thing that I wonder about (with nails) would be "what would happen if the the flexihand was able to wiggle past the peg when it moved from one peg to the next?" In that case, I believe, it would just be a regular clock style hand. It's possible that I've got the wrong mental model for how that would work.

I think you'd put the nails at N+1 position, not N. (e.g. for the minute mark, you't put the nail at 6, 11, 16, etc. not 5, 10, 15). Then, the hand would press against the nail and progressively bend until it slipped past the nail entirely and jumped to the next 5 spot (and not yet be touching the next nail).

Re: Wobbly clock

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Post by smm11 »

jedberg wrote: post #81
agys wrote: post #39

Made me think about the Swiss Railways clock that has the second hand completing the circle in 58.5 seconds; all the clocks on the network then wait for the sync signal from the “master clock". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_railway_clock

The clocks in my elementary, middle, and high schools would do something similar. Not every minute, but every hour. At the top of the hour, when there was 15 seconds left, the second hand would make 3 second jumps until it hit the top, and then hold until the next hour started. I always thought that was a brilliant way to keep mechanical clocks in sync. And the system had been there since the 1970s, so it was well be…

Our elementary school clocks (70s) made a variety of nearly imperceptile sounds as they got near the top of the hour, or turned it over. We were like dogs when they hear the about-to-eat sounds start.

Re: Wobbly clock

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kragen wrote: post #85
cori wrote: post #57

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I won't go into a ton of specifics, but we talk about the general limitations for projects here: https://help.glitch.com/kb/article/17-technical-restrictions...

it sounds like you accidentally set your request rate limit about four orders of magnitude lower than the other limits, because you set them to 4000 requests per hour, which is about a ten-millionth of a laptop by contrast the 512 megabytes of ram is about a 64th of a laptop and the 712 megabytes of disk is about a thousandth of a laptop this results in absurd situations like this one, where a purely static web app c…

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Re: Wobbly clock

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Post by ad404b8a372f2b9 »

jedberg wrote: post #83

This clock is great for teaching kids how to tell time! When learning to read a "circle clock", they have a heck of a time understanding what it means when the hour hand is almost but not quite pointing at a number. So when it's 3:45 they will say 4:45 because they know the big hand on 9 means "45" but they get confused because the little hand is almost pointing at 4. This clock solves that problem. Anyone know if I…

A lot of engineering students make that mistake when learning to read log graph paper, I guess we never grow out of that kind of thinking.
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