Building a Turing Machine from Magic the Gathering

September 12, 2012 By 8 Comments
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If you really know your Magic the Gather and you're a programming wiz you'll appreciate this paper on building a functioning Turing Machine from Magic the Gathering cards. We're sure you're familiar with Turing Machines, which uses a rewritable strip to store and recall data. Most of the time we see these machines built as... machines. For instance, this dry-erase marker Turing Machine has long … [Read more...]

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A LEGO Turing machine for [Alan]‘s centennial

June 18, 2012 By 12 Comments
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2012 is the 100-year anniversary of [Alan Turing]'s birth, and to celebrate the centennial, [Jeroen] and [Davy] over at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in The Netherlands built a Turing machine out of LEGO. A Turing machine is an extremely simple device, but is still able to compute everything your desktop can. The machine is generally described as an infinite paper tape with a read/write … [Read more...]

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Turing machine a masterpiece of craftsmanship

March 27, 2010 By 33 Comments
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Everything about this Turing machine is absolutely brilliant. A Turing machine uses a strip of material to record, calculate, and change data. [Mike Davey] built this one using servo motors, a Parallax Propeller, felt-tipped pen, and 1000 feet of film leader. The machine writes characters to the leader, reads them using a grayscale camera, and erases them with a rotating felt cylinder. Watch … [Read more...]

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