Lego Antikythera Mechanism
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Uploaded on Dec 9, 2010
The Antikythera Mechanism: http://bit.ly/fm4oFK is the oldest known scientific computer, built in Greece at around 100 BCE. Lost for 2000 years, it was recovered from a shipwreck in 1901. But not until a century later was its purpose understood: an astronomical clock that determines the positions of celestial bodies with extraordinary precision.
In 2010, we built a fully-functional replica out of Lego.
Sponsored by Digital Science: http://www.digital-science.com/ a new division of Macmillan Publishers that provides technology solutions for researchers. Available under a CC-BY-3.0-Unported license.
Antikythera Mechanism Research Project http://www.antikythera-mechanism.gr
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Top Comments
Vasilis Botoulas 2 months ago
Coming back from the Antikythera Mechanism exhibition in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens I have to say that although this is quite an impressive work of "legomanship" it is much bigger than the estimated original one. Just pointing it out. Video, music and the lego idea is amazing.
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Donny Murdo 3 months ago
Dear LEGO, please please make available a Technic set with full easy to understand steps to build one of these.
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Ozcomz 1 week ago
You must not be a very skilled Wielder-of-the-Blocks.
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Caleb Kahl 1 week ago
Easy to understand by Lego have you been living under a rock all these years LEGO NEVER HAS AND NEVER WILL MAKE ANYTHING EASY TO UNDERSTAND!
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Christopher Zurcher 1 week ago
I had to turn the music off to watch this.
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H0sstyLe01 1 week ago
Ancient Greeks were Godlike
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calvinthedestroyer 2 weeks ago
Very impressive!
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Schwallex 3 weeks ago
Now *this* should be a project on CUUSOO. Not the rubbish that's up there right now.
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justin dawson 3 weeks ago
It's more awesome than a I-phone, 2000yrs old,I want one,lego should sell them,I'd build it.
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tailsawsome17 3 weeks ago
3 years latter and this is still awesome
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MadsterV 1 month ago
That's some amazing STOP MOTION right there. Loved it.
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KENKENNIFF 1 month ago
This is more impressive than the original in a way, because you are limited by the fixed sizes of the cogs, the original builders to make their own cogs to the required sizes.
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