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Lego Logic Gates

Posted by timothy on from the three-little-words dept.

Thud457 writes "LEGO Logic Gates - It's like Babbage, but with bricks. All the gates except XOR are here, and he goes on to develop a clocked flip-flop. While practical mechanical computers may be out, even at the nanotechnological scale, nanomechanical memory may be in. "

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  1. No need for XOR by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    XOR can be constructed by combining other gates. You acctually just need NAND-gates to be able to create any other gate or larger structure.

  2. Re:Mechanical Analogs by Ford+Prefect · · Score: 4, Informative

    There may be no obvious immediate use for mechanical analogs of digital circuits, when digital circuits are orders of maginitude faster than mechanical circuits

    If you scale things down a bit, mechanical 'circuits' can become a lot faster - and combined with the electrical properties of the components there might be an interesting hybrid some point in the future.

    Still, using Lego is just a little insane, and there is the minor problem of a '1' or a '0' slowly degrading into '0.5's further along the Lego logic chain... :-)

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  3. Re:This was just plain mean by MrNonchalant · · Score: 4, Informative

    MirrorDot appears to be down at the moment. In the meantime I mirrored it here. Unfortunately my web host isn't that generous so I'll probably take it down very shortly. Those that want to mirror the mirror can grab a zip file copy here

  4. Re:OT: Question for Slashdotters by a24061 · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you mean software to simulate building digital circuits out of gates, look at TKGate.