{"id":1383,"date":"2010-12-10T11:14:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T10:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/complexitymaze.com\/?p=1383"},"modified":"2010-12-10T11:14:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T10:14:00","slug":"the-antikythera-mechanism-in-lego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/complexitymaze.com\/?p=1383","title":{"rendered":"The antikythera mechanism in Lego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To add to our blog post series about fun machines in Lego (<a href=\"http:\/\/complexitymaze.com\/2010\/06\/07\/learning-computer-science-with-lego\/\">Turing<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/complexitymaze.com\/2010\/07\/03\/the-most-useless-machine-ever-built-in-lego\/\">most useless<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/complexitymaze.com\/2010\/10\/21\/lego-3d-printer\/\">3D-printer<\/a> and so on) here is a video of the antikythera mechanism built in Lego &#8211; that is the functionality is simulated with a machine built in Lego, but it certainly doesn&#8217;t look like the original. <\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t remember what the antikythera mechanism is then let <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antikythera_mechanism\">wikipedia<\/a> enlighten you:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Antikythera mechanism &#8230; is an ancient mechanical computer[1][2] designed to calculate astronomical positions. It was recovered in 1900\u201301 from the Antikythera wreck,[3] but its complexity and significance were not understood until decades later. It is now thought to have been built about 150\u2013100 BCE. The degree of mechanical sophistication is comparable to late medieval Swiss watchmaking.[citation needed] Technological artifacts of similar complexity and workmanship did not reappear until the 14th century, when mechanical astronomical clocks appeared in Europe.[4]&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The modern version is explained in this video:<br \/>\n<object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/RLPVCJjTNgk?fs=1&amp;hl=da_DK&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/RLPVCJjTNgk?fs=1&amp;hl=da_DK&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>A really really old computer rebuilt in Lego &#8211; what&#8217;s not to like?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To add to our blog post series about fun machines in Lego (Turing, most useless, 3D-printer and so on) here is a video of the antikythera mechanism built in Lego &#8211; that is the functionality is simulated with a machine built in Lego, but it certainly doesn&#8217;t look like the original. If you don&#8217;t remember [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[24,218,352],"class_list":["post-1383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-antikythera-mechanism","tag-lego","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/complexitymaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/complexitymaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/complexitymaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/complexitymaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/complexitymaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/complexitymaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/complexitymaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/complexitymaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/complexitymaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}