Marble Turing Machine

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Marble turing machine.

As always comments are welcome and appreciated. It s fun addicting and while you re at it you discover how computers work. Turing tumble is a revolutionary new game where players build marble powered computers to solve logic puzzles. Took a bit longer than expected to pull this together but here it is.

Build mechanical computers powered by marbles to solve logic puzzles. You can get a document on how it works here. Escape planet eniac and discover how computers work. Apologies for the bits i get a bit ramble y but i didn t script the video.

Turing tumble is a revolutionary new game where players ages 8 to adult build mechanical computers powered by marbles to solve logic puzzles. Turing tumble build marble powered computers in this award winning marble run logic game and stem toy for boys and girls age 8 and up brand. The first marble flip a little piece of cardboard so if there is a second marble it fills fall in a hole. Once the first marble is released the player is not allowed to interfere with the turing tumble until it runs out of marbles to release or terminates.

4 5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. Paul boswell is raising funds for turing tumble. This video is the result of six months of trial and error woodworking in my workshop.

I m already thinking of how i could make a minimalist marble computer or a turing machine. Thank you for reading i hope you did enjoy. We don t know when or if this item will be back in stock. Gaming on a mechanical computer on kickstarter.

Interestingly enough this proof is actually simpler if you try to construct a simulation of conway s game of life in the double switch marble run system instead of a polynomial space turing machine. Otherwise try something else think about how each piece is. If the turing tumble has been correctly assembled then the output will match the desired condition and you have solved the puzzle.