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posted by janrinok on Friday November 06 2015, @06:34AM   Printer-friendly
from the something-to-do-this-weekend dept.

Here's a short video clip of the Mk2 Turing machine working at Derby Maker Faire. It took about 6 weeks from sending the plans off to RazorLab to having a working machine at the Handmade Digital exhibition in Manchester. There are still lots of handmade parts in the Turing machine, but having the majority of it laser-cut has made it much easier to construct. There are also a lot of bugs in the design. One of the great things about the laser-cut design is that I can record these bugs as though they were software defects, which they are in many ways.

The design for the machine is on github, at https://github.com/jmacarthur/millihertz/tree/master/scad/newbuild, although it may not be very intelligible at the moment. I really need to spend more time documenting the design. Lots of people have said they like the shiny black laser-cut Turing machine, and others have said they prefer the scrappy style of the original. Personally I'd prefer to hand-make the final version out of solid brass, but that will be several iterations away.


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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by wonkey_monkey on Friday November 06 2015, @08:26AM

    by wonkey_monkey (279) on Friday November 06 2015, @08:26AM (#259339) Homepage

    The design for the machine is on github, at https://github.com/jmacarthur/millihertz/tree/master/scad/newbuild, [github.com] although it may not be very intelligible at the moment.

    It certainly isn't. The comma at the end of the link screws it up.

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