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05/29/2012 9:10 AM

can anybody tell me how to make a propeller clock...because i want to make a project in that??
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05/29/2012 9:13 AM

Isn't the whole idea of the project to develop a new design, i.e. one that has not been plagiarised from another's design work?

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05/29/2012 4:53 PM

Sure. Just take about a 2 foot propellar and mount it on a small motor - you could use a steam engine if you can get one to go fast enough. Mount a small air-driven generator in the hub with the vane cups out on the tips. Then put a distributed matrix of LEDs on the prop blades such that they blink the correct time, but depend on the prop rotating at speed so that retinal persistence puts the blinking LEDs together into digital numbers.

Sounds like fun.

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