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This - or imagine what mechanics and designs could be possible if we combined an idea like this clock with modern methods like you mentioned them. Each gear could be embellished with elaborate designs that would be too time consuming to create manually for example.

For me the interesting parts of the (kinda hate this term) "maker revolution" are share-ability and remixability. The community and sharing sites are an integral part of this.

So you can have lots of people who've never met quickly iterate on a design. Then yet other people customise or use it in unexpected ways.

The end result would be not a clock, but a species of mutant clocks spreading across the world.

Interestingly, the clock is essentially a robot, using cams instead of electronics for control.

With the right cams, I am sure it could trace some of its parts instead of drawing numbers.

Well, yeah. It depends on what activity you want to do.

I prefer spending time thinking about shapes, design and trying to model them. I suck at it. But I am getting better.