On: Show HN: Mechanical clock simulation in WebGL

[beeboop]

So the small spring is what makes it run accurately? I wonder how hard it is to make the small spring accurate without modern tools (1800s technology).

[rcurry → beeboop]

This provides a good description of how the balance wheel works:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance_wheel

It is manually tuned, via weights and spring tension, to oscillate at a precise interval.