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Binary calculator using only wood and marbles.

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  • anteyekon4myst, on 03/19/2008, -38/+5This is what happens when idiots get a hold of the Delorian. They go back to 1985 and bring news into the future. Thanks. I feel informed.
    • unreg, on 03/19/2008, -2/+24I found it an interesting and information demonstration of how a binary adding machine worked. Furthermore, it was a nice piece of craftsmanship.

      Go back to you video game.
      • Rjordan, on 03/19/2008, -8/+2WHO WANTASZ TO PLAYZ MARIO CARTS ONLINE?!
      • anteyekon4myst, on 03/20/2008, -1/+1More like my Masters thesis, but thanks anyways *****.
    • debuggercll, on 03/19/2008, -1/+2What anteyekon4myst said was pretty funny, still.
  • madmax85, on 03/19/2008, -0/+30Pretty useful when you'r out in the field calculating subnets
  • vardhan, on 03/19/2008, -0/+43video: http://digg.com/design/Amazing_Marble_adding_machi ...
    direct youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcDshWmhF4A&feature ...
    • MrCrispyChicken, on 03/19/2008, -0/+6*fingers crossed*
      Never gunna give you uppp, never gunna let you downnn!.... oh
  • TonyTheTerrible, on 03/19/2008, -8/+2very interesting demonstration, but wow @ that guys voice ._.
  • revansii, on 03/19/2008, -15/+5Mirror anyone?
  • revansii, on 03/19/2008, -13/+4mirror anyone?
    • revansii, on 03/19/2008, -8/+2Stupid comments...bury me.
    • Skardhamar, on 03/19/2008, -1/+8Dejavu
      • Exbzurq, on 03/19/2008, -1/+4O shi-
        they changed the matrix.
        • spudnic, on 03/20/2008, -0/+3This is what happens when idiots get a hold of the Delorian. They go back to 1999 and bring comments into the future. Thanks. I feel informed.
  • GhandicapXRS, on 03/19/2008, -1/+43Does it run Doom?
    • revansii, on 03/19/2008, -2/+8Yes
    • pinkrubberband, on 03/19/2008, -1/+13ah but does it run Crysis?
    • Zappa5446, on 03/19/2008, -1/+14The frame rate occasionally drops to 57fps... What a piece of *****
    • doctechnical, on 03/19/2008, -0/+2I've got some matchboxes that can play Tic-Tac-Toe, will that do?

      http://www.programmingforfun.com/Programs/tic_tac_ ...
    • HoppingRabbit, on 03/19/2008, -3/+0It depends, if you have got the Woodfox Broadband 4kb/s, it should run fairly smoothly. It will occasionallly dip to 20-30 fps. It can run Assassin's Creed, even on 9980x100
    • JJP0223, on 03/19/2008, -0/+3Will it blend?
    • heypetray, on 03/19/2008, -0/+1I made an excel spreadsheet that can add numbers. I'll be posting a video for you guys.

      But in all seriousness, that was pretty cool. Nice work, but you should really do a better job at erasing your pencil marks. Clean it up a bit! Varnish.
  • MentalHazard, on 03/19/2008, -26/+0It won't load.
    Buried.
    • ayeroxor, on 03/19/2008, -0/+13You and people like you are simply too stupid to understand the concept of a social bookmarking site. You should probably just stop coming here if you don't know when to digg or bury a link. Here's a hint: If the site is busy, you DON'T KNOW whether you should digg or bury it.

      But hints are probably too subtle for someone of your cranio-fecal density.
    • chewbie, on 03/19/2008, -2/+1nice flame!
    • CATSCEO, on 03/19/2008, -0/+4Wow you're stupid. Go back to myspace.
  • ThantiK, on 03/19/2008, -0/+33This is the kind of thing that would probably sell decently on thinkgeek. I know I would buy one.
  • CSharpSauce, on 03/19/2008, -0/+11Wow this is amazing... i wish i would've seen this when i learned binary in college. This is a great visual.
  • frazw, on 03/19/2008, -0/+18I've seen this before but somehow that didn't detract from my amazement watching it again.
    That machine is awesome, the abacus can kiss my ass.
    • grimward, on 03/19/2008, -2/+2Soooo.,. you're into spanking eh? :P In all seriousness, I do agree with you :)
  • unreg, on 03/19/2008, -0/+25Apparently the server is also wood
  • monkeynote, on 03/19/2008, -0/+1This calculator is awesome! i wish i had this during my college days.
  • spamspanker123, on 03/19/2008, -1/+3Someone built a modified Digicomp out of Lego's, pretty interesting...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYi9sJkS19Q
  • DarkFoxDK, on 03/19/2008, -1/+2ooooold vid, but totally awesome, so dugg
  • mooseofshadows, on 03/19/2008, -0/+5Wow, that would be my favorite calculator ever. Bring that sucker to the SATs.
  • Doktag, on 03/19/2008, -1/+11BINARY SOLO!
    00000010000001100000011100001111

    < /fotc>

  • aussieNickuss, on 03/19/2008, -1/+9I have a hard time understanding how it works, but damn, watching him get real answers from that thing was fascinating!
    • 4U55l3NlNJ4, on 03/20/2008, -0/+1It's great to see it from the front page, isn't it?? Same story was submitted a few days ago but who knew. Thanks pizzle!!!
  • eigenweasel, on 03/19/2008, -0/+45This will seriously confuse archaeologists in three thousand years time when they find it next to an iPod and Blu-Ray disk.
    • ayeroxor, on 03/19/2008, -1/+2In all seriousness, as far as the history of mankind goes, we are alive during the birth of digital technology. I'm sure it will make perfect sense to find a binary "toy" next to digital devices.
    • grimward, on 03/19/2008, -1/+4I'll bet they'll find this machine, but not the other two ;) (wood has a chance to petrify if I'm not mistaken)
      • opnickc, on 03/19/2008, -0/+2Plastic doesn't decompose - so the disk and the iPod's shell should be there too.
        • grimward, on 03/19/2008, -0/+4depends on which kind of plastic it's made from, certain plastics do degrade over time, others will last a million years.
    • frazw, on 03/19/2008, -1/+3Why? Wouldn't they just watch the video to figure it out?
  • jimmoses, on 03/19/2008, -0/+5That is really great. Really really great.
    However, you'll have to prise my slide rule from my cold dead hands.
  • robotto, on 03/19/2008, -0/+2Who needs a calculator...
  • mr1337, on 03/19/2008, -3/+6Not to be the crasher of parties here, but this has been frontpaged before. It only got re-dugg because it got on reddit finally. (Don't ask me for the frontpage link. It's much too early, and I'm much too lazy right now.)
  • Visarga, on 03/19/2008, -0/+8Wooden Core II Duo with 8 slots. Soon to be released by Intel in the "ecological computing" class.
  • social101, on 03/19/2008, -0/+0!Great! nice innovative effort!!! :)
  • mammajamma101, on 03/19/2008, -5/+2Impressive. Useless, but impressive.
  • holmenb, on 03/19/2008, -1/+6I am such a nerd -- what kind of person gets genuinely excited about binary??
  • chrisxkelley, on 03/19/2008, -0/+2Very awesome. It would be nice for beginning Computer Science classes for teachers to have this--I could see it making my understanding of binary much easier a few years back. Well Done!
  • JesusHatesYou, on 03/19/2008, -4/+0WTF? A binary abacus?
  • bstockwell, on 03/19/2008, -0/+3his other stuff is cool too

    http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/marbles/index.html
  • Stephen1424, on 03/19/2008, -0/+2Is it mac compatible ?
  • LightningCount, on 03/19/2008, -1/+2Much applause for going green!
  • Jyaif, on 03/19/2008, -0/+1Doable using K'nex, take a look at the big ball factory. (In fact, the big ball factory is a 1 bit binary adding machine.)
  • gamalkik, on 03/20/2008, -2/+1interesting but extremely boring at the same time
  • RareSaturn, on 03/20/2008, -0/+1Genius. Why didn't the ancient Greeks have something like this??
    • ardembiniwoot, on 03/20/2008, -0/+2We have ten fingers and ancient people started with decimal because of this...
  • StolidOne, on 03/20/2008, -0/+0where's the ants?
  • 4U55l3NlNJ4, on 03/20/2008, -0/+1Yet another pizzle dupe making the front page
    http://digg.com/search?s=marble+binary+adding&subm ...
    thank joseph smith that every user on digg doesn't continuously post dupes, what an absolutely boring site this would be!!! Some of us have the decency to not click "Totally original, I swear" when faced with even one dupe, and choosing to digg the earliest submission.
    • 4U55l3NlNJ4, on 03/20/2008, -0/+1If it were me posting this article, I would have dugg the user who posted a link directly from youtube 3 days ago (the one with a whopping 28 diggs) instead of posting a dupe. Check out the dude that posted approximately a month ago. tikioverlord's link directs to http://woodgears.ca/marbleadd/index.html pizzle submits the exact same page but drops the index.html. Classic dupery at it's finest. Buried for obvious reasons.
  • 4U55l3NlNJ4, on 03/20/2008, -0/+1If it were me posting this article, I would have dugg the user who posted a link directly from youtube 3 days ago (the one with a whopping 28 diggs) instead of posting a dupe. Check out the dude that posted approximately a month ago. tikioverlord's link directs to http://woodgears.ca/marbleadd/index.html pizzle submits the exact same page but drops the index.html. Classic dupery at it's finest. Buried for obvious reasons.
  • 4U55l3NlNJ4, on 03/20/2008, -0/+1If it were me posting this article, I would have dugg the user who posted a link directly from youtube 3 days ago (the one with a whopping 28 diggs) instead of posting a dupe. Check out the dude that posted approximately a month ago. tikioverlord's link directs to http://woodgears.ca/marbleadd/index.html pizzle submits the exact same page but drops the index.html. Classic dupery at it's finest. Buried for obvious reasons.
    • 4U55l3NlNJ4, on 03/20/2008, -1/+2Just decided to dupe my own comment and follow in the footsteps of the pizzle!!! Spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam, Spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam, Spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam, Spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam, Spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam, Loveley spam!!!
  • jesuswuzanalien, on 03/20/2008, -0/+1This is finally on digg? Yeah I guess it has been a few days since I saw it on the front page of reddit.
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