Steve wrote:
>
> I have seen commercially available pendulum clocks as you describe, although
> the pendulum pivoted on the bottom, and was springloaded hard plastic.  The
> PIC project you describe is something I have been thinking about for about 2
> years, but have been *WAY* too lazy for that so far...

I just found Bob Blick's site a few minutes after I posted. It has a
very similar idea!

http://www.bobblick.com/bob/projects/mclock/index.html