Subscribe by EmailBinary Adding Machine Built Out Of Wood
July 9, 2007 by BrianBoyko | 2 comments
By Brian Boyko
Contributor, [GAS]
There’s a number of cool projects over at woodgears.ca, including a home-built wooden pipe organ and an apple grinder, but the one that caught my attention was the binary, 6-bit adding machine that uses falling marbles and pivoting wood blocks to store data.
If the Ancient Chinese had learned to count in Base2, this is the abacus they would have built.
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That is some freaky stuff.. marbles lol.
And when exactly is “Ancient Chinese” ?
I’m not sure, but I’m thinking sometime before 1978.