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Show HN: Roons – Mechanical Computer Kit
Welcome, weary traveller from the orange site! Let me tell you the tale of roons — a kit for building mechanical computers. I got inspired a couple of years ago when I binged a bunch of mechanical logic gate YouTube videos.
The canute performs a check then kicks an back one step, which lets us implement carry-like functions on a marble bitstream. Promptness — reasonable processing rate; don’t have to wait for BB 10 steps before a computation finishes Fast editing — minimal friction to changing a pattern and running it. Therefore, I manually trim down Copper-Coated Mild Steel (CCMS) brazing rods with a pair of bolt cutters, then embed them in the bars.
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