A steel bar pivots. A spring stretches. Then, with a small shove, the whole setup flips into a new state and stays there until the next push. That simple motion sits at the heart of a mechanical ...

Published in Nature Communications, researchers from St. Olaf College and Syracuse University built a computer made entirely ...

Shadowman39, a K'nex enthusiast who posts to YouTube and Instructables has built a fully mechanical 8-bit computer using K'nex parts. The computer uses a simple architecture and will load programs ...

Long before electricity was a common household utility, humanity had been building machines to do many tasks that we’d now just strap a motor or set of batteries onto and think nothing of it.

Researchers from St. Olaf College built a computer made entirely of mechanical components that can perform simple computations without electricity or batteries.

Researchers from St. Olaf College and Syracuse University in the US have unveiled a computer that functions entirely through ...

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