Please vote for the LEGO Turing Machine at LEGO ideas
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/28
Last year, a third LEGO Turing Machine that I know of was developed, 12 years after the second one (details below) developed during the 2012 Alan Turing Year and a first one in 2009 (see also below), and this time submitted at LEGO ideas.
[Wayback/Archive] LEGO IDEAS – Turing Machine – Working Lego Computer
Please vote for it, as it will be a great gift not just for computing lovers but also as a learning opportunities.
Links:
- [Wayback/Archive] LEGO IDEAS – Turing Machine – Working Lego Computer – updates
- Media
- [Wayback/Archive] still.0000000.jpg (1920×1080)
- [Wayback/Archive] webp (949×633)
- [Wayback] stream.m3u8
- [Wayback] stream-1080.m3u8
- [Wayback/Archive] Turing Machine – Working Lego Computer (Lego Ideas link in desc) – YouTube
- [Wayback/Archive] Functional LEGO Turing Machine by The Bananaman – YouTube
- [Wayback/Archive] Lego Turing Machine (no annoying music) – YouTube
Via
- [Wayback/Archive] Dr. Christopher Kunz: “Last September, I reported on …” – chaos.social
- [Wayback/Archive] Crazy Lego projects: Drivable McLaren P1 and working Turing machine | heise online
All three machines are cool devices, so lets continue with…
Second LEGO Turing Machine
- [Wayback/Archive] LEGO Turing Machine – YouTube became Vimeo staff pick in June 2012; the making of the video can be found at [Wayback/Archive] LEGO Turing Machine – ecalpemos|nl
- www.cwi.nl/en/2012-alan-turing-year/ (HTTP due to link rot; regrettably not archived in the Wayback Machine nor Archive Today)
- [Wayback/Archive] CWI: The LEGO Turing machine
- [Wayback/Archive] Exhibition ‘Turings Erfenis’ opens doors
- [Wayback/Archive] LEGO Turing Machine (domain expired at the end of 2017 taken over a few years ago by a casino web-site; the archived links are OK)
- Source code:
- [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – cwi-swat/TuringLEGO: The Universal Turing Machine implemented in NXC, which runs on the LEGO device we made: http://www.legoturingmachine.org
- [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – DavyLandman/TuringLEGO: The Universal Turing Machine implemented in NXC, which runs on the LEGO device we made: http://www.legoturingmachine.org
First LEGO Turing Machine
In 2009, this LEGO Turing Machine was developed:
--jeroen
Third LEGO Turing Machine
[Wayback/Archive] LEGO IDEAS – Turing Machine – Working Lego Computer
[Wayback/Archive] still.0000000.jpg (1920×1080)
[Wayback/Archive] webp (949×633)
Second LEGO Turing Machine
[Wayback/Archive] CWI: The LEGO Turing machine
[Wayback/Archive] Turing_machine.width-768.jpg (768×327)
First LEGO Turing Machine
[Wayback/Archive] Lego of Doom








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