mpjgregoire, 1 month ago to random

The intricate workings of a mechanical watch shown and explained: https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/

Via #MarginalRevolution

#watch #clockwork

stooryduster, 2 months ago to illustration

#Scottish weekly word #illustration

"They’re The Creator’s Watchmakers.

On an unrelenting raik to ensure that the exact time o The Creator is oan aw the clocks o the Universe.

They go brainwode if yir clocks are wrang. Ahn they’re no blind.

So dinni let them see yer watch, it’s been stopped for months.

They’ve malkied hail civilisations fur less."

#drawing #Scots #Scotland #art #language #cartoon #clockwork #war #oppression

#Translation in alt txt.

Taffer, 3 months ago to retrogaming

Yay, my Clockwork GameShell still works!

Boo, I think I crashed it updating the launcher.

I should probably slap whatever the latest (last?) version of its OS is onto the microSD card and start over...

#retrogaming #gameshell #clockwork

Taffer, 3 months ago to retrocomputing

My Clockwork Gameshell has been unplugged and stuffed into a shipping box since around the start of the pandemic. I was going to sell it to someone and they ghosted me.

I've plugged it in, hopefully the battery still works...

#clockwork #gameshell #handheld #retrocomputing

etaski, 9 months ago to bookstadon

#SFWA "Take No Prisoners" #StoryBundle :apartyblobcat: Clicky-> https://storybundle.com/sfwa

Today’s #featured #book
Danielle Ackley-McPhail & Day Al-Mohamed's

BABA ALI AND THE #CLOCKWORK #DJINN

"Come, Best Beloved, and sit you by my feet. I shall tell you a tale such as sister Scheherazade could have scarce imagined…"

This story will delight fans of #Steampunk, #Fairytales, and just good writing!

#BookToot #BookSale #Charity #NonProfit
@sffbipoc @bookstodon @bookstadon @fantasy @sffbookclub

BobHarvey, 9 months ago to ai

Simultaniously impressed and dissapointed with tonights experimental Bing image. It looks nothing like what I was attempting to describe, and only one of the four has the head I asked for. 5/10

"A clockwork human. A person with a normal looking head, and mechanical limbs, whose torso is an exposed apparatus of gears and springs and cogs. The clockwork human is surrounded by laboratory benches with tiny mechancial devices and tools. "

#AI #AIart #DALLe #Mechanoid #Clockwork

A sort of sculpture rather than a mechanism, but without any head at all, let alone a normal one.
The only one of the set that looks vaguely beleicable, both as a mechanism and a human head, which is a sombre looking man looking straight at us. The contents of the torso resemble the internal organs of a human a little bit, I can see a diaphragm, a pelvis, and something round where the intenstines would be, The mechanisms in the arms look like they could do something.
weird plastic robot shell with a clockwork face, nothing normal about the head at all. The torso is a satisfying mass of components.