> How about a clock with wooden gears

I've made some from pohutakawa

https://www.flickr.com/photos/97814409@N04/albums/72157644882823968

It's a rock-hard wood and not something I'd care to repeat on a regular=20
basis

I've drawn up some 3D files for just the teeth and plan to put those
around a wooden hub, which isn't nearly so much work

> and a solenoid to clunk the escapement instead of a pendulum. The
> gears would all be visible through cutouts in the case ...

Those gears are going to be moved by a solenoid (of sorts) but not
in the way you probably think

> That could be controlled by a PIC that listens to one of the 60kHz
> time frequencies

GPS modules are ridiculously cheap too.

> with a magnet in the ends of the hands and a hall effect device at the
> 12 o'clock position you would know every hour what time it is displaying.
> Then it could pulse the solenoid fast to go to summer time or just stop
> for an hour to go back to standard time.

All of the clocks I've seen in the craft market are simply relocated quartz
movements in an "arty" setting. Which is fine enough, if simple to do

The long case clock I'm planning

https://www.flickr.com/photos/97814409@N04/albums/72157644973110900

will have as many smarts as I can jam in there, including length adjustment
to synchronise with mains. Probably not possible to advance a pendulum
clock for daylight saving via the pendulum but a small motor on the gears
should do it

Joe=20



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