• satanmat@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    That some damn fine work

    The tenacity, or madness to work through how to make that work is amazing.

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    2 months ago

    This reminds me of Minecraft redstone computers. Its great to see that does translate to the real world too with a GUI. (I’m aware that the very first computers themselves were mechanical calculations machines)

  • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    That’s so damn cool. Honestly, stuff like this makes me want to learn some engineering. I’m an electrician so going back to school isn’t really a priority, but down the line…

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      2 months ago

      Right. This is at its core a mechanical computer. This is only a few changes away from doing stuff like calculating real world data

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        2 months ago

        It is calculating real-world data. It’s just specialized and applied calculations.

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        2 months ago

        Yeah, but my hardware knowledge is real basic. Closest I get to stuff like that would be PLCs, but I’m not really an industrial guy.

        Maybe as a hobby though