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#4126724 - 05/30/15 07:21 AM Amazing machine  
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http://www.chonday.com/Videos/the-writer-automaton

eek

That is the most impressive thing I have seen in a long long time.


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#4126730 - 05/30/15 07:53 AM Re: Amazing machine [Re: Timothy]  
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Well yes, but just like for modern printers, there is absolutely no mention of the cost of a replacement ink cartridge.

#4126732 - 05/30/15 08:05 AM Re: Amazing machine [Re: Timothy]  
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#4126733 - 05/30/15 08:09 AM Re: Amazing machine [Re: Timothy]  
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#4126734 - 05/30/15 08:10 AM Re: Amazing machine [Re: mikew]  
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Originally Posted By: mikew
Well yes, but just like for modern printers, there is absolutely no mention of the cost of a replacement ink cartridge.


You're absolutely right! it was common in the 18th century for the poorest Swiss to throw their automaton away and build another one.

An impressive and moving machinery...fascinating.

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#4126736 - 05/30/15 08:55 AM Re: Amazing machine [Re: Timothy]  
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at first I thought it's another crazy invention running on RaspberryPI =) incredible, indeed.

#4126739 - 05/30/15 09:19 AM Re: Amazing machine [Re: Timothy]  
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That whole documentary is worth watching if you can find it,the entire history of Autamatons.

#4126745 - 05/30/15 10:13 AM Re: Amazing machine [Re: Timothy]  
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Astounding that one person conceived and assembled that.
I had heard that such things existed; in fact, the story
goes that from the Antikythera Mechanism onward, there
has been a lineage of expertise in this sort of skill
that had expressions in places like Imperial Rome, and
the Abbasid Caliphate, but being mere trade craftwork,
employed by commission and for the amusement of the nobility,
and often proprietary techniques jealously guarded, this
whole culture managed to pass largely unremarked by the
wider public, with the technology not harnessed for more
practical applications until the Enlightenment.

#4126769 - 05/30/15 11:37 AM Re: Amazing machine [Re: Timothy]  
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Even more amazing is that it appears, from timestamp 3:45, that the boy was writing a letter to Dr Oz!


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#4126781 - 05/30/15 12:48 PM Re: Amazing machine [Re: Timothy]  
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Cool, there is a video game made years back called "Syberia" by B. Sokal that is
about an adventure searching for the maker of these incredible Autamatons. Still
have these games. They are very interesting to explore.





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#4126785 - 05/30/15 01:05 PM Re: Amazing machine [Re: Timothy]  
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Thanks for sharing that Timothy quite interesting indeed.

Those machines of Charles Babbage, the difference engine and analytical engines

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage

Made me also think of 2011 Martin Scorsese film called Hugo about a boy's search for info about his dead father and an automaton. It was quite good and the grand kids enjoyed it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970179/


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#4127130 - 05/31/15 05:58 PM Re: Amazing machine [Re: PlayerOne]  
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Originally Posted By: kinrossian
Originally Posted By: tony draper
That whole documentary is worth watching if you can find it,the entire history of Autamatons.


True!



WoW! That was a great video! Thanks for finding it.


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