World's oldest known computer rebuilt - from Lego.

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The Antikythera is a Greek astronomical computer built around 2000 years ago and found in a shipwreck in 1901. Various models of it have been built since that time but now a fully functional copy of the device has been assembled from Lego. You have to see the video to grasp the enormity of both the achievement of rebuilding this thing from Lego, but also, of how such a device could have been constructed so long ago.

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That the project was "doable" seems to be an understatement! :shock:

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very very cool, lots of stuff can be made from legos even automatic transmissions!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1G2SylEllg
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