| ▲ | Designing a Mechanical Calculator(signoregalilei.com) | |||||||
| 16 points by surprisetalk 5 days ago | 5 comments | ||||||||
| ▲ | zokier 10 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
I feel there is very little calculation going on in the design. To be useful like pascaline you'd need at least some convenient way to input numbers. | ||||||||
| ▲ | beeforpork an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||
Maybe have a look at the Curta for inspiration of a mechanical calculator. There's a 3D printable version of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9uRckJLqLk https://wudev.digitaltorque.com/articles/curta-1/ | ||||||||
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| ▲ | mkreis an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||
Reminds me of the purely mechanical computer Z1 with 16-word floating point memory, Keyboard and punch card reader: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z1_(computer) Would be interesting to reconstruct that using a 3D printer... if anyone has too mich time to spare. | ||||||||
| ▲ | orbital-decay 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
There are probably designs that are more print-friendly than gears (rod logic?). I wonder how far you could go with just a 3D printer if you really optimize for the efficiency. | ||||||||