Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Simple Computation Using Dominos

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the houses-of-cards dept.

An anonymous reader writes "When silicon fails to beat Moores law, maybe dominos can help. This guy has created a half adder in dominos as a proof of concept for domino computation. If he intends to make a full domino computer he's going to need an awful lot of dominos."

2 of 131 comments (clear)

  1. Videos on YouTube by ikegami · · Score: 5, Informative

    The site might be down, but the videos are on YouTubte

    inputs = 0 & 1
    inputs = 1 & 0
    inputs = 1 & 1

  2. He Cheated! by haakondahl · · Score: 5, Informative

    Watch the 1+1 video, and you'll see that the stacked dominoes are actually glued together! No fair!


    Details: His right hand pushes over a domino chain which knocks out a link needed to complete the left-hand output. But in order to reach the chain for the left-hand output, he crosses the chain for the right-hand output, which then has a gap. This gap is bridged by GLUING a yellow domino on top of a red one, on top of a blue one.

    --
    Don't trust anyone under thirty.