Tuesday, July 19, 2005
Wonderful automaton based on idea by Claude Shannon
Information theory pioneer Claude Shannon was a master toy maker. (See Boing Boing entries about his juggling robots here).
Here's a box someone built based on Shannon's idea. When you push a red knob on the box, the lid opens and a hand comes out and pulls the knob, causing the lid to close. There's a video of the box in action on the site.
Link (thanks, TK!)
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