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Simulating a watermill's mechanics with Opus 5.5
The author spent an afternoon with Claude Opus 5.5 recreating a watermill: water fills the buckets and turns the wheel, gears step 6 rpm up to 120 rpm to grind grain, and the wheel runs at about 46% efficiency.
The Bugged Dev
@thebuggeddevArchived 2026.10.01Originally posted 2026.09.30
The Bugged Dev @thebuggeddevOriginally posted 2026.09.30
Spent an afternoon with Claude Opus 5.5 figuring out how a watermill actually works Eventually we got the whole mechanism working, from water filling the buckets and turning the wheel to the gears stepping 6 rpm up to 120 rpm and the stones grinding grain. It is not perfect yet. This wheel is running at around 46% efficiency while a real one typically reaches 60 to 80%. Still, pretty close, ig?
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