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Difference Engine built with LEGO
Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 7:20 pm
by 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.
Re: Difference Engine built with LEGO
Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 8:42 pm
by thefool
Nik wrote: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!
Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 9:38 pm
by Bonne_den_kule
What does a difference engine do?
Solving ax2+bx+c=0 ?
Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 10:16 pm
by Nik
@Bonne_den_kule I think so yes, at least it can calculate the value of f(x)=ax^2+bx+c
Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 3:52 am
by 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...