fandomhigh | Shop Class; Tuesday, Fourth Period [02/20].

The internet was truly an amazing thing, and Amaya tended to use it to find interesting new ideas to try in her shop...and, well, her shop class. So when a bit of random scrolling and reading lead her all the way over to an article about ancient Greek alarm clocks, she immediately knew she had to do something with that.

Or, well, maybe make her class do something with it!

"Today," she said, "I've decided we're going to dive into a little project focused around a clepsydra, or water clock. Well, technically, it translates into 'water thief, but these devices were basically a way to have an alarm clock when you didn't have actual mechanical time pieces or phones you could conveniently set to a specific time. With these devises, time is measured by the flow of water from one vessel to the next, much like sand in an hourglass, but an alarm version of a clepsydra would involve some other mechanical element that will create a signal when the water reaches a certain point.

"I'll go over some examples and break down various aspects of how they work, and then the challenge is for you to try and recreate a current model or experiment with your own form and structure. But the key elements need to be present: it needs to use the passing of water to create a way of marking the passage of time, and there must be some sort of alert or alarm system to inform people of when that time reaches a certain point. Do we have any questions right out the gate?"

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Like an Ancient Greek Rube Goldberg-esque alarm clock!

Stark

Beaker

Of course, as one might expect, Amaya is definitely thorough with her explanation on how the various different designs work, while showing them off practically, and also eagerly showing an example or two of her own redesigns, although she did try to keep those to a minimum, so that they didn't influence the students' own designs too greatly.

Zards, is she excited to see what some of you all come up with for this one. She might be particularly impressed if fire somehow still manages to make an appearance at some point.

There were a lot of fiddly bits to this. Stark loved little fiddly bits he could focus on. But deciding which sort of water clock he ought to be trying to recreate was tough.

He was going to go with more parts. That seemed best.

Who is already thinking that she needs to work on setting up a system like this, but specifically for watering all her plants while she's off on the school trip next week.

Me, literally this morning:

Shop Class; Tuesday, Fourth Period [02/20].

Sign In - Shop Class, 02/20.

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Re: Sign In - Shop Class, 02/20.

Listen to the Lecture - Shop Class, 02/20.

Class Activity: Make a Clepsydra Alarm Clock! - Shop Class, 02/20.

Re: Class Activity: Make a Clepsydra Alarm Clock! - Shop Class, 02/20.

Talk to the Teacher - Shop Class, 02/20.

OOC - Shop Class, 02/20.