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n2doc

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Sat Jun 23, 2012, 05:22 PM Jun 2012

A Turing Machine built using LEGO

In honor of the Alan Turing year 2012


To honor Alan Turing, we built a simple LEGO Turing Machine, to show everyone how simple a computer actually is. Primary goals were to make every operation as visible as possible and to make it using the automatic components of just a single LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT set, to make it easy to reproduce for those interested. The LEGO Turing Machine is part of the exhibition Turing's Erfenis at CWI.

more at link
http://www.legoturingmachine.org/

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A Turing Machine built using LEGO (Original Post) n2doc Jun 2012 OP
Oooo, I wanna build one. :) nt abelenkpe Jun 2012 #1
That is very cool! CaliforniaPeggy Jun 2012 #2
Cool! wandy Jun 2012 #3
Wow. How cool is that! Little Star Jun 2012 #4
Wonderful things longship Jun 2012 #5
How many milliflops can it do ? nt eppur_se_muova Jun 2012 #6
Cleary sir, they are flips. /nt TheMadMonk Jun 2012 #7
I'm convinced that you can build anything with Lego. HopeHoops Jul 2012 #8
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