The FIBIAC — a 3D-Printed Electromechanical Computer 42
Brietech writes "'Behold the FIBIAC! It's loud! It computes! It uses actual punch cards!' The FIBIAC is a simple, stepper-motor based, (mostly) 3D-printed electromechanical computer. The program is stored on a loop of paper punch-cards, and the machine uses three, 3-digit electromechanical counters for storage (which could be expanded to support more complicated programs) Watch a video of it computing the Fibonacci sequence, or jump on Thingiverse and build your own."
Wow, imagine a Beowulf cluster of these! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Wow, imagine a Beowulf cluster of these! (Score:5, Funny)
But does it run Linux?
Re:Wow, imagine a Beowulf cluster of these! (Score:3, Funny)
maybe if you wrote a emulator for that 8 bit risc processor that emulated the arm running linux (http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/04/02/191203/gnulinux-running-on-an-8-bit-processor). but if that was slow this would be monstrously so but it would be the ultimate geek cred