It’s official: I NEED an NXT kit for Christmas.

Also, first!

I would have guessed that the LEGO™ gears would not allow fine enough control. There is a lot of play in them.

Awesome stuff!

I love how it combines storage of enormous sized bits with bluetooth communication :P

Yes, we are not norwegian.. We are from Denmark :)
And you can see a Lego Designer at our blog to see how it is built

Ever since the first generation Lego Mindstorms kit came out, I’ve craved to own one. I’ve played with several of the kits, and only touched the tip of the iceburg on what they were capable of doing, and what could be built with them.

Then lego introduced the NXT mindstorm. I’ve never laid hands on one, but from what I’ve seen online, they have an incredible amount of uses like demonstrated here.

My question is however, does anyone actually know what use this is as a calculator/volatile memory device?

@Punkguyta
the ‘use’ is to gain an appreciation of where all this came from.

turning machine!!! cool!

nerds….

OF COURSE it can play Doom, but you will probably evolve into a different species before you make it to the next level.

Nice project! Was it just me or did anyone else have visions of the A-Team flashing back in their head?

I must say, that is quite cool! Useful? Practical? Absolutely not! A good learning experience? For sure!

Not having read any of the details quite yet, I assume they implemented the “virtual cpu” on the NXT, so that the Turing machine can be programmed with flipping glorious Lego bits.

And yes, a Turing machine can –by definition– do any operation that any other computer can. I don’t know how many miles of Lego bits they’d need to program it to do something like multiplication but “given infinite tape” (as was stated above) and near-infinite time this thing could multiplicate, divide or even run linux.