Make a Wizards Pendulum Clock

Support Will: This is a tutorial showing you how to make a pendulum clock. We keep it simple and it doesn t keep actual time but it does show phases of the moon as it runs. Fun project that uses foam board. And you learn about how a pendulum clock works and why it makes that ticktock sound. With this project you actually make a simple pendulum clock without having to make all those gears. This one uses an escapement and a single gear to progress the phases of the moon. The template for this project with all the parts is on my website right here: About escapements and pendulum clocks. Galileo invented the first pendulum clock in 1642 but didn t build one. Christiian Huygens built the first working pendulum clock in 1656. A wide variety of escapements have been invented and designed. The type we use in this tutorial is called a single pin escapement. It is a ver