3D printing a mechanical computer

Chris Fenton is using his MakerBot 3D printer to print out a mechanical computer; here he demonstrates one of the counting mechanisms.

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dagfooyo

That’s awesome! Now if someone can design a 3D-printable mechanical computer that’s capable of controlling a 3D printer, then we’ll be getting somewhere.
- http://www.nathanhornby.com/ Nathan Hornby
  
  I was going to say the only other 3D printed story I need to hear about is when someone 3D prints a 3D printer.
  
  Seriously though, we get that people can 3D print things, it’s not really that different to announcing that someone drew a mechanical computer; or printed out the plans on an inkjet.
  - fnc
    
    3-d printing a 3-d printer?
    
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RepRap_Project
http://twitter.com/chriscoreline chris coreline

Every day, another step toward the machine uprising :/
http://profiles.google.com/westcarleton Ray Perkins

Mechanical computer? Just the dividing chain from a mechanical car odometer.