Difference Engine built with LEGO

[Nik]

Don't know how many of you already knew this, but here you can find a diffenrecne engine built out of standard LEGO parts, it can solve polynoms to the 2nd order with 4 digits precission
http://acarol.woz.org/

amazing isn't it.

[thefool]

Don't know how many of you already knew this, but here you can find a diffenrecne engine built out of standard LEGO parts, it can solve polynoms to the 2nd order with 4 digits precission
http://acarol.woz.org/

amazing isn't it.

wow
Brilliant
I am also building some stuff with Lego mindstorms atm. Its so great hehe

btw, lego is danish!

[Bonne_den_kule]

What does a difference engine do?
Solving ax2+bx+c=0 ?

[Nik]

@Bonne_den_kule I think so yes, at least it can calculate the value of f(x)=ax^2+bx+c

[Rook Zimbabwe]

Charles Babbage must be spinning like a top! What will Lady Ada say???

I love it! Can it do my taxes?

Article has 1 flaw:

Because of engineering issues as well as political and personal conflict the Babbage Difference engines construction had to wait until 1991

Babbage built 1 engine, his idea for a steam powered engine that would do far more had to be shelved because of time and cost and a few widgets that he just could not get right...