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Subject:	Building a computer from Lego's
Newsgroups:	lugnet.robotics, lugnet.general
Date:	Tue, 30 Jan 2001 19:06:32 GMT
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This guy built a computer out of Tinkertoys! So I was wondering, has anyone ever built a computer out of legos? Heck, has anyone ever built a working cash register. Certainly can be done. http://www.edge.org/digerati/hillis/index.html

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		Re: Building a computer from Lego's
(...) play tic-tac-toe, made out of tinkertoys... but generally, I think of computers as... I dunno... kinda having a 'processing' stage to them... Or maybe it's that the programs are interchangeable... dunno... Maybe it was a computer... hmm... But (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.general)

		Re: Building a computer from Lego's
(...) Browse (URL) for a description of a "rope and pulley" computer, it might give some insight into building one with Lego. Harley Myler (URL) (24 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)

		Re: Building a computer from Lego's
(...) Does building an abacus out of LEGO count as a computer? :-) Mark. ---- Mark Crosbie mark@mastincrosbie.com Linux, Electronics and LEGO all at (URL) (24 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)

		Re: Building a computer from Lego's
Sorry if this one has been suggested: (URL) have seen two others, but searches came up empty and didn't someone post a brick sorter that read in a sequence of 1x2 tiles to produce an "order" to be "picked" from hoppers of different colour? Couldn't (...) (24 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.general)

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