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The K’NEX computer

The K’NEX computer

Matt Donahoe, Jeff DeCew, and Olek Lorenc are students at Olin College trying to build a computer entirely out of K’NEX parts for their Computer Architecture class… The K’NEX calculator stands over 10 feet tall, and can perform 4 bit addition and subtraction operations in about 30 seconds. The slowest part of the operation is […]

The “Problem light”

The “Problem light”

Patrick made a very cool “problem light”… So, I’d decided a while back to build a problem light, after being inspired by someone else’s genius. Think of a smoke alarm…but more general. So, as I began plotting my own problem light, in the Venture Bros style, my friend told me she was redoing her living […]

The little engine that could

The little engine that could

NY Times has a great article on makers who create tiny replica engines – DOWNSIZING may be a chilling concept nearly everywhere, but not in the workshop of George Luhrs, a machinist in Shoreham, N.Y., with an affinity for the very small. Mr Luhrs has built a single-cylinder engine you could lose in a pocketful […]