A Huge Difference

What could be more near and dear to a geek’s heart than old-school computational devices: slide-rules, abacuses (abacii?), and the Babbage Difference Engine.

Found the site of someone who built a BDE #2 out of LEGO. Through that site, I found another where they have built a BDE #1, BDE #2 and even a Babbage Analytical Engine from Meccano. (The guy’s whole site can be found here.)

These are cool enough I want to build them for myself as geek-art around the house.

Only you, my bretheren, will understand why this is so cool.

(Yes, found the LEGO one via Slashdot, but it’s the Meccano versions that really caught me.)

One thought on “A Huge Difference”

  1. Oh, Michael. This is soooo up your alley. Legos and difference engines. I can’t wait to see you put one together using all of the Legos you already have around your place.

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