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

Posted by timothy on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @05:00AM from the try-that-with-lincoln-logs dept.

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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Re:Distinctions adding up by Tablizer · 2012-06-19 05:40 · Score: 5, Funny

Waiting for the first Lego Botnet...
Gives a new meaning to "my smartphone's been bricked!"

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Re:I'll bet this isn't a real Turing Machine by Sarten-X · 2012-06-19 05:48 · Score: 4, Funny

That's the newsworthy part. They created a mechanism that takes snide comments from the Internet, and converts them to mechanical storage!

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