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Submission + - A turing machine build with Lego (legoturingmachine.org)

Submitted by Otis_INF on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @06:13AM

Otis_INF writes: To honor Alan Turing, two researchers at the CWI built a simple LEGO Turing Machine, to show everyone how simple a computer actually is. Primary goals were to make every operation as visible as possible and to make it using just a single LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT set.

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CS graduate (1994), Senior Software engineer at own company. Programs C#/.NET all day. Loves heavy metal (playes guitar) and other crap. Believes in 'choose the right tool for the job, not the tool you love the most'.

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A turing machine build with Lego

If Machiavelli were a programmer, he'd have worked for AT&T.