Apple engineers create Lego computer!?

[GRogall]

Just found this while researching for something else!

someone could imbed the youtube video, please?....

[Christoph]

There is a topic started by DLuders in the Technic forum here with an embedded video.

This is great stuff.

[Masked Builder]

Here you go:

Edit: Never mind.

Quite cool if you ask me.

Edited December 12, 2010 by Masked Builder

[Brickdoctor]

It was also blogged on TBB.

Here's the video:

[RileyC]

Yeah, thats pretty awesome. I wonder if they used any illegal connections in making it?

So microsoft, beat that!

[Big Cam]

I saw this on engadget, I don't know what's more impressive, the LEGO version or the fact that someone made this out of stone hundreds of years ago.

[Brickdoctor]

Yeah, thats pretty awesome. I wonder if they used any illegal connections in making it?

So microsoft, beat that!

Probably not, since this machine evidently needs as much precision as possible, something illegal connections usually can't provide.

They're to busy futilely suing Apple since they can't compete.

I saw this on engadget, I don't know what's more impressive, the LEGO version or the fact that someone made this out of stone hundreds of years ago.

The latter, since they didn't have pre-fab parts or someone to copy. Or maybe the former since they had to use the pre-fab parts. I think they're equal.

[Corvus]

I saw this on engadget, I don't know what's more impressive, the LEGO version or the fact that someone made this out of stone hundreds of years ago.

It was made of bronze and wood, actually.

And it was thousands, not hundreds of years.

/nitpick

The latter, since they didn't have pre-fab parts or someone to copy. Or maybe the former since they had to use the pre-fab parts. I think they're equal.

The original may have had up to 72 gears, while the lego version had 110 gears. The designer had to use multiple gears to copy the function of one on the original, since the prefab gears had a different number of teeth than the original.

That said, the original is much more impressive, simply because they had to design it from scratch, based off of their observations of the stars. That is absolutely phenomenal.