8 Bit Mechanical Computer built from K’nex.
Long before electricity was a common household utility, humanity had been building machines to do many tasks. Transportation, manufacturing, agriculture and essentially everything had non-electric analogs, and perhaps surprisingly, there were mechanical computers as well….
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Hackaday: 8 Bit Mechanical Computer Built From Knex. “The K’nex computer is built by [Shadowman39], and this first video features just the ALU [arithmetic logic unit]. It can accept numbers from 0-255 or -128 to 127 and can add two of these numbers by storing them in registers using levers to represent each digit. A drive system underneath with a rack and pinion system operates on each […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/24/hackaday-8-bit-mechanical-computer-built-from-knex/
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