{"id":1084,"date":"2014-11-15T13:06:41","date_gmt":"2014-11-15T13:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slbbhi.co.uk\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2019-04-24T19:14:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T18:14:21","slug":"4-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/?p=1084","title":{"rendered":"2014 December meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Swarf on my mouse mat \u2013 John Downie<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An intriguing title for what promises to be a talk to remember.<\/p>\n<p>John is a retired university lecturer and a member of the Sussex Branch of the BHI with a keen interest in the practical use of computers in clockmaking.<\/p>\n<p>John will be describing the research and computer modelling he did in order to help a friend build a functioning model of the famous 14<sup>th<\/sup> Century Salisbury Cathedral Clock.<\/p>\n<p>With a desire to be able to manufacture complex items in his workshop John has built his own CNC machine using a scrapped computer controlled PCB drilling machine together with home brewed electronics and software.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently he has gone on to develop computer models of mechanical regulator clock escapements and using programs such as Algodoo and Rhino 3D and a home brewed mill has gone on to put some of them into practice.<\/p>\n<p>John is not entirely computer based and enjoys working alongside other Sussex based horologists fine tuning his hand skills.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who was on the visit to the Frodshams workshop will remember how impressive the computer aided design facilities were.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe John will inspire us to see how the computer can be put to good use in our own more humble workshops!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swarf on my mouse mat \u2013 John Downie An intriguing title for what promises to be a talk to remember. John is a retired university lecturer and a member of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/?p=1084\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2014 December meeting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meetings-2014-2015"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2166,"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions\/2166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}