Monday, April 21, 2014

We can build it better ... out of Lego

James emails to point to this which is not just fiendishly clever, but has exceedingly high production values.

5 comments:

Dave H said...

Hmph. I spent all those years learning digital logic and programming, when I should have been playing with Lego.

Old NFO said...

That is just flat neat... :-)

Goober said...

Just curious...

did they ever figure out what the antikythera mechanism was for?

Borepatch said...

Goober, it was for predicting eclipses.

Goober said...

I think a lot of people fail to understand how exciting a discovery the antikythera mechanism was.

Gears and intricate cogworks and such like didn't show up again until the 14th century.

This thing would be like finding a working airplane in a Columbus-era shipwreck.