reinventing the wheel  
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Roedy Green





PostPosted: 2007-9-23 1:41:00 Top

java-programmer, reinventing the wheel http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/162

This is off topic, but Java folk will like find it amusing. It shows
a Dutch invention to replace the wheel, various mechanical walking
machines. It has a mechanical step counter, a sort of primitive finite
state automaton..
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Daniel Pitts





PostPosted: 2007-12-20 4:17:00 Top

java-programmer >> reinventing the wheel Roedy Green wrote:
> http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/162
>
> This is off topic, but Java folk will like find it amusing. It shows
> a Dutch invention to replace the wheel, various mechanical walking
> machines. It has a mechanical step counter, a sort of primitive finite
> state automaton..
I'll be impressed when he makes them able to pick up the tubes and build
a replication of itself :-)

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