More LEGO STOPMOTION Goodies For Octopunk: Apple Engineer Recreating 2000-Year-Old Computer Using Lego

Saturday, December 11th, 2010 Horrorthon Posts


This is unbelievably cool! An Apple Software Engineer (big surprise) named Andrew Carol has successfully recreated “the famous Antikythera Mechanism, created by ancient Greeks in 100 B.C. as a way of predicting astronomical events like eclipses” out of LEGO (as documented in a stop-motion film, no less). The interview is very interesting; it’s a discussion that would be fruitful even if it was just an intriguing hypothetical in a discussion of machines and the guy hadn’t actually gone ahead and done it (Using LEGO!!!) Counting gear teeth, no less…

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1662831/watch-an-apple-engineer-recreate-a-2000-year-old-computer-using-legos