After my last trash clock ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49930439 ), I wanted to see how low I could go. My latest clock is built mainly from empty drink cartons, plus a few skewers, some paper straws, a piece of string, some nuts as weights, and lots of hot glue. It has a pendulum, an escapement, and hands for seconds, minutes, and hours, and runs for about an hour. The design of the gears and escapement was AI-assisted: Claude built me interactive browser tools that gene

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