Design

Computer Aided Design

My CAD included an escapement wheel and a pendulum. The escapement wheel and the very tip of the pendulum were both fixed designs which everyone used, but the bottom section of the pedulum was free for everyone to design differently. Because the coor of my acrylic was yellow, I decided to make my pendulum in the shape of a baby chick. Initially, my chick design was too short and did not follow the requirement that the Center of Gravity should be below its rotation point. In order to fix it, I had to make my chick less circular and more of an oval. I also had to add eight bolts at the bottom of my pendulum in order to further bring down the Center of Mass of my pendulum.