A Built Turing Machine

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A Turing Machine is something that you just think about, it isn’t a physical machine. Well now it is! Mike Davey has spent some time to create one.  Mike built his Turing Machine to look the part however inside you will fine a Parallax microcontroller as the heart.

Via: Make and HackADay

“A Turing machine is a theoretical device that manipulates symbols contained on a strip of tape. Despite its simplicity, a Turing machine can be adapted to simulate the logic of any computer algorithm, and is particularly useful in explaining the functions of a CPU inside of a computer.”


3 Comments


  1. Insanely cool!
    I want to build one. Any chance of more complete build schematics?


  2. The code and schematics are available, click on the link in the article to go to the main project page.

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