This is a functional 30-minute pendulum clock entirely from discarded materials—cardboard, zip ties, tape, a yardstick, and a paperclip escapement, built in the German Eldorado of precision watchmaking: Glashütte.
It also acts as a reference clock for GTC, a new satirical universal time standard.
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Razengan 5 hours ago|
Some more cool clocks, including gravity based clocks (not hourglasses):
I know, right. A real showcase of ingenuity, creativity, resourcefulness, precision, and technical excellence, just the type of thing I come to HN hoping to see.
internet2000 7 hours ago||
Europe is a country with great potential.
ahartmetz 4 hours ago||
There are credible claims that things have been invented and developed there, and some still are.