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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Outstanding!

Watching it, my first thought was if it could also be used as s display for a large calculator? Guessing the computation part would require electronics, but then again, there used to be geared tabletop calculators.

Very nice work.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There were purely mechanical calculators back in the day.

They were absolutely massive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

They could be made fairly small. The Curta calculator was hand held. Unfortunately, they are very expensive now, but there is a simulator online if you want to play with one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Yes, absolutely. Just needs one motor per digit.