Discover the Magic of Marble-Based Computing with Turing Tumble Kickstarter

[YoungPhysicist]

Recently I found this on YouTube:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/871405126/turing-tumble-gaming-on-a-mechanical-computer
It’s about a small board machine that can do similar logic tasks to actual computers.

 

[jedishrfu]

This is absolutely great!

Thanks @YoungPhysicist for sharing this.

I found that you can actually order the game now for $70 US:

https://www.turingtumble.com/

I'm definitely going to have to get one of these. Now, I wonder if Machine Learning is available for it.

There are numerous youtube videos on it as well.




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It reminds me of the earlier ESR toys: Dr Nim, Think-a-dot and Digicomp-II games of the 1960s when I was a kid.







Evil Scientist Digicomp-II:

https://www.evilmadscientist.com/2011/digi-comp-ii-and-the-2011-bay-area-maker-faire/

and lastly a more complete video where Bill Kustes demonstrates these three:

 

[jedishrfu]

Here's more on the inventor and his wife:

https://www.bethel.edu/news/articles/2017/june/turing-tumble

In the article they mention the ESR toys as being inspirations.