Tim Robinson's Meccano Difference Engine - Maker Faire 2006
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- This is some footage of Tim Robinson demonstrating his Meccano Difference Engine at the 2006 Maker Faire in San Mateo, California.
See xenomachina.com... for my post about Maker Faire 2006.
See www.meccano.us/ for more of Tim Robinson's Meccano creations.
Actually, Meccano has been around a tiny bit longer than Erector, but was more popular in the UK, while Erector was more popular in the US. (I actually had both when I was a kid -- I grew up in Canada where both were available.) At some point Meccano bought the Erector name, and so modern day Erector sets actually are Meccano sets with a different name.
I'd just like to chirp in here. -I'm from Denmark; and played with Lego and Meccano.
Fancy that: Toys from the end of the Victorian era being so very useful still :3
That is a stunning bit of mechanics, I hate to think what adjustments were involved or what happens if a screw loosens.
heh, funny story about the difference engine.
it was designed in the mid-1800's, but never built, because it was too complicated.
the first time someone actually built it, it required the use of modern computer-aided drafting to build. Ironic, huh?
you have my respect! for this building
Increible modelo!!!! Felicitaciones!!!!
@richardkelltoolmaker I believe it was set up to calculate trigonometric tables. sin(x), if I remember correctly.
I think Babbage would have given his left testicle to own a nice Meccano set like that.
goodness me, its incredible the brains and ability that is out there .....
ps ... what are we calculating?
Most Impressive.
and now introduce a stepping motor and go go go :D
shift registers, each column is a 10^n ?
Tinha que ter no Brasil.
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Nobody built this. Billions of years ago mechanical parts blew up and this evolved.
Can't build that with Lego.
Or can you? ;-)
let me guess, is it calculating... 42 :D