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LEGO calculator - Patrick Rendulic - 10-10-2007
I don't know whether someone has posted this before:
A working LEGO calculator!
Awesome !!! 8-O - Valentin Albillo - 10-10-2007
Thanks for bringing it up to our attention !
Best regards from V.
Re: LEGO calculator - Paul Dale - 10-10-2007
It has been mentioned here before I think. Try also the Meccano/Erector difference engine it was based on. Or better explore the entire site. I believe Tim is working on the Babbage analytic engine at the moment.
- Pauli
Re: LEGO calculator - Thomas Okken - 10-10-2007
I could have sworn it was mentioned here before, but if it was, I can't find it. Oh, well, I must have seen it while idly browsing woz.org many moons ago.
A LEGO difference engine is not an HP calculator, but it is so cool that I'm going to say Thank You for pointing it out anyway. :-)
- Thomas
If only Babbage could have one...(was: LEGO calculator)N.T. - Vieira, Luiz C. (Brazil) - 10-10-2007
A famous quote from Babbage - Karl Schneider - 10-10-2007
Hi, Luiz --
A famous quote from Charles Babbage:
Quote:
On two occasions I have been asked, – "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
-- KS
Thank you! A pure gem! - Vieira, Luiz C. (Brazil) - 10-11-2007
So that was the kind of thought Babbage´s difference machine caused the members of the House (of the Lords, I presume) to be bothered with. Poor Babbage... extra wondering and worriness.
Thanks again.
Luiz (Brazil)