Yes, absolutely. Just needs one motor per digit.
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fubarx@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
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.
infinitepcg@lemmy.world 1 month ago
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
There were purely mechanical calculators back in the day.
They were absolutely massive.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month 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.