That stuff.. the hanging rocks or whatever it is.. ? A Krunkus totem thing? _________________ A Charity Pantomime in aid of Paranoid Schizophrenics descended into chaos yesterday when someone shouted, "He's behind you!"
No,
not a Krunkus totem. An old ceramic windchime, which just happened to be right in the middle of the picture! I wasn't even aware of it when I took the pic, I was only focussed on the trees! _________________ What makes a space ours, is what we put there, and what we do there.
Ahh... for a moment there it managed to convince me that it was a hanging totem surrounded by trees. _________________ A Charity Pantomime in aid of Paranoid Schizophrenics descended into chaos yesterday when someone shouted, "He's behind you!"
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Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 5:24 am Post subject:
Subject description: Tuesday's transit of Venus
Took this Tuesday early evening with a smallish telescope and a DIY "Funnel Projector". First time I've tried to view/photograph the Sun..I thought it turned out OK.
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Venus Transit June 5, 2012
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Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 9:26 am Post subject:
Subject description: Tuesday's transit of Venus
RF wrote:
Took this Tuesday early evening with a smallish telescope and a DIY "Funnel Projector". First time I've tried to view/photograph the Sun..I thought it turned out OK.
Nice! That is the best projected image photo of the transit that I have seen posted so far. It’s a better view than I got looking directly through 7x50 binoculars with a shade number 14 filter plate. _________________ varice
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Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2012 1:29 pm Post subject:
After spending a couple of weeks sorting legos around here (we have a lot), I had a couple days off and between doing paperwork (which was sort of the point of the days off) and fighting the paperwork, I worked on a Lego clock (well, 3 versions of the clock so far) and having got the 3rd version to work with an electric motor, decided to try to make an escapement out of Legos.
I chose a long clock version because (a) I know how they work and (b) they are reasonably efficient (slow) tickers and take less energy to operate. Which was a concern when using Lego Technic as the gearset.
anyway, here's the escapement.
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Front of the escapement. The escape wheel is from a Bionicle, some kind of saw thing. 12 teeth so 24 seconds per rotation. Usable.
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The gearing. 5 x 5 x 1.667 means the winding drum turns once about 15.5 minutes. Unfortunately, gearing down further just results in no force to drive the escape wheel.
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Winding drum, and another view of the gears. The free shaft there is the minute wheel drive, that's turning once a minute.
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The pendulum, and the weight, which is a sock with some Bocce balls in it (760g apiece) and some socket wrenches to get it up to 2.4kg.
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Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 1:52 pm Post subject:
Wonderful clock Paul! _________________ ACHTUNG!
ALLES TURISTEN UND NONTEKNISCHEN LOOKENPEEPERS!
DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN! ODERWISE IST EASY TO SCHNAPPEN DER SPRINGENWERK, BLOWENFUSEN UND POPPENCORKEN MIT SPITZENSPARKSEN.
IST NICHT FÜR GEWERKEN BEI DUMMKOPFEN. DER RUBBERNECKEN SIGHTSEEREN KEEPEN DAS COTTONPICKEN HÄNDER IN DAS POCKETS MUSS.
ZO RELAXEN UND WATSCHEN DER BLINKENLICHTEN.
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Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 9:57 am Post subject:
_________________ ACHTUNG!
ALLES TURISTEN UND NONTEKNISCHEN LOOKENPEEPERS!
DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN! ODERWISE IST EASY TO SCHNAPPEN DER SPRINGENWERK, BLOWENFUSEN UND POPPENCORKEN MIT SPITZENSPARKSEN.
IST NICHT FÜR GEWERKEN BEI DUMMKOPFEN. DER RUBBERNECKEN SIGHTSEEREN KEEPEN DAS COTTONPICKEN HÄNDER IN DAS POCKETS MUSS.
ZO RELAXEN UND WATSCHEN DER BLINKENLICHTEN.
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