Our new Lego Turing Machine (version 2) is at SC13 in Denver, Colorado !!! We are at the Inria booth, come on to meet us and take a picture with it and win a T-Shirt Here is our flyer !

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t=0 h.h So, I did a quick model with SketchUp, just to know what MTV3 will look like. Here it is: There are four sandwich-structured panels (two 5mm plywood glued a frame made with 18×40). So it will be rigid enough. They are linked with piano hinges. Upper and under caps keep the part together and […]

t=0 h.h So, our decision final: We will build a new Turing machine out of Lego. It will be the third version. Third? Not second? Yes three : The almost-machine-that-doesn’t-work, that we presented at our defense project The one that almost sailed to the seven seas. (It went to Paris, just imagine! (about 400 miles)) […]

During the month of November, the Turing machine was presented in the town hall of the fifth arrondissement of Paris for the exhibition “Henri Poincare: from mathematician to philosopher / Alan Turing: from the formal language to life forms” organized by the Institut Henri Poincaré. Some pictures of the event:

You’ve always dreamt to build your own machine don’t worry, we are trying to create a building instructions.

From the 2th to the 4th of July, the ENS de Lyon held a conference to celebrate Alan Turing’s 100th birthday. We were invited to present our turing machine. During these three days, the turing machine was exposed in main Hall. Moreover, we made a presentation in presence of Leslie Vaillant just before the degree […]

80 000 people have already seen our presentation video, we have created a new website to celebrate this success !