Andrew Carol, an engineer at Apple, has rebuilt a model of the ancient Antikythera Mechanism entirely out of Lego blocks. Watch this amazing 3-minute video: A fuller story behind all this is here. I ...

One of the prettier things I've seen on the 'net lately: a recreation of an ancient computing device called the Antikythera Mechanism. The Antikythera Mechanism — just one is known — is an ancient ...

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This dude named Andrew Carol has just built what might be the most epic Lego creation ever. Carol is an software engineer at Apple and the dude is a Lego savant. Carol tool 1,500 different Lego ...

Legos are not just for kids' toys: an engineer at Apple has proven they can be used for a technological history lesson. Andrew Carol, an engineer at Apple, recently used his spare time to build the ...

Recreating an ancient calendar is child's play... This video - which is not only incredibly cool, but also set to dramatic music - tells the story about a device called the Antikythera mechanism. Here ...

The Lego Antikythera does its calculations in a less direct manner, requiring more than 100 prefab gears assembled into several modules, each performing separate bits of math. Then seven differentials ...

Recreating an ancient calendar is child's play... This video - which is not only incredibly cool, but also set to dramatic music - tells the story about a device called the Antikythera mechanism. Here ...

This week, we look at the use of Lego to model ancient technology and then explore the areas of manuscript digitization, 3D printing and reconstructing historical soundscapes. Finally, we head over to ...

ANDREW CAROL’S computers can calculate the solutions to mathematical equations and tell you the exact time and date of a lunar eclipse several hundred years into the future. Yet these machines compute ...

Whenever I tried to make large mechanisms like that (but way less complex) out of technical Lego when I was younger, I always found that the twisting tended to make the gears push apart, jamming their ...