Comments on: Lego Turing machine

By: Mathieu Le Corre

Mathieu Le Corre — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 06:04:00 +0000

Here’s another Lego Turing machine: http://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2012/06/22/l-ordinateur-en-lego-inspire-par-alan-turing_1723058_1650684.html
It runs on compressed air…

By: slowtiger

slowtiger — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:32:00 +0000

That sample the music starts with: isn’t that from Raymond Scott? Or some other synth pioneer of that time? I know it, but can’t remember!

By: Roy Trumbull

Roy Trumbull — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 21:08:00 +0000

The concept of computable numbers occurred to two men. One was Alan Turing and the other was Alonzo Church. The result was the Church-Turing Conjecture. Turing was Church’s “student” at Princeton from 1936 to 1938. They approached the same problem using different methods
http://www.princeton.edu/turing/alan/history-of-computing-at-p/

By: Yehuda Jonathan Berlinger

Yehuda Jonathan Berlinger — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 19:55:00 +0000

Sonny, that thar aint no Turing machine. That thar’s a gen-you-wine nondeterministic figh-nite autah-manaton. And them’s good eatin’!

By: liquidstar

liquidstar — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 19:51:00 +0000

Lego Turing machine has made all previous lego models obsolete. All hail the new plastic!

By: s2redux

s2redux — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:30:00 +0000

FTFV: These are all the components needed to describe any operation your computer can execute.

I can’t locate it on my new computer, but somewhere on my previous computer there was a “smoke release” switch that activated when lightning struck. Seems to be missing from this model. Otherwise, great machine!

Looking forward to the Lego Monks website. (Perhaps to be founded by someone named “Larry Brick”?)

By: bcsizemo

bcsizemo — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 17:50:00 +0000

It looks like it would be easy enough to have the “read” head in a fix mount or only have it move when a bit is flipped…

Still it is interesting seeing how “new” technology recreates its ancestor.