The LEGO Turing Machine

Via Make, here is a video of a Turing machine built from a LEGO Mindstorms kit:

Alan Turing, the father of Computer Science, conceptualized the eponymous machine to demonstrate the theoretical limits of computation. He did it so well that his work is relevant these many decades later and his work continues to be memorialized in LEGO form.

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