K ’NEX, the colorful plastic construction toy known for roller coasters and towers, has taken on a new identity. It has become the frame of a fully functioning 8-bit mechanical computer. Built by an ...

Mechanical computers may not oversee today’s automated tasks, but it’s still possible to build your own using literal ...

A computer is, at its core, just a bunch of transistors wired together. Once you have enough transistors on a board, though, one of the first layers of abstraction that arises is the Arithmetic ...

A computer is, at its core, just a bunch of transistors wired together. Once you have enough transistors on a board, though, one of the first layers of abstraction that arises is the Arithmetic Log… ...

The arithmetic part, which deals with calculations, e.g. 1 + 2 = 3 The logic part, which deals with any logical comparisons, such as the comparison of two numbers, e.g. 2 > 1 ...