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A Turing Machine Built With Lego, And a Place To Put It

New submitter Otis_INF writes "To honor Alan Turing, two researchers at the CWI 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 just a single LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT set." And if a simple Turing machine gets old, Reader miller60 adds a link to this Lego data center "that recreates all the major features of an IT facility, assembled from 5,772 pieces, 28 figures, and 1 meter of fiber optic cable. The builder, Tanaka, has uploaded details to the Lego Digital Designer Gallery so others can build and adapt their own."

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  1. Re:It's an LBA, not a TM by Prune · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's not effective trolling if you have to put so much effort into it. See, you're the one that spent a bunch of effort making multiple AC posts here, whereas I got more karma boost. Kid, I was trolling on IRC while your grandfather was in diapers. Go back to 9fag

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