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I do hope watchmakers start to integrate "computational" (instead of temporal) complications into their watches, like a mechanical turing machine or other tiny mechanical computers or calculators which I believe have never been constructed this small.

Inspiration:

Wooden Turing Machine: https://youtube.com/watch?v=vo8izCKHiF0

Curta Calculator: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZDn_DDsBWws

Zuse Z1 Computer: https://youtu.be/R5XnuT6ZLKg?t=283

Maybe also analog ones!: https://youtube.com/watch?v=s1i-dnAH9Y4

parent 7373737373 1 year ago

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