We built a computer with only LEGO®
M1 student created the RubENS project at the ENS de Lyon in France, it consists in building a computer with only LEGO® bricks! The design is based on a Turing machine, an abstract model of computation imagined by Alan Turing in 1936 at the age of 24. 2012 is Alan Turing 100th anniversary.
The RubENS project is a visual and simple tool aimed at explaining the basics of computation to everyone. Our Turing machine is entirely mechanical: the only energy input it uses is compressed air at 2 bars. Nothing is hidden in it, for the first time one can truly see a computation!
| Date | Events |
|---|---|
| September 2011 à January 2012 | The course PI (Projet Intégré) is the genesis of the RubENS story. |
| April 2012 |
Shooting film for RubENS "Turing Machine Comes True (The)" (CNRS Image) |
| From 4 to 6 mai 2012 | Showroom at l'Université Claude Bernard |
| 22 juin 2012 |
Une machine entièrement mécanique qui ne manque pas d'air. Le Monde. (In french) |
| 23 juin 2012 | Article "Alan Turing, l’héritage d’un géant" – Complément Science&Techno (In french) |
| 29 juin 2012 | RubENS on TV. BFM-TV in "Hommage à Alan Turing" |
| 2 et 3 juillet 2012 | Alan's Turing Heritage. Leslie Valiant (Prix Turing 2010) meet RubENS |
| Octobre 2012 | RubENS goes for a permanent showroom at the MMI |
| 2013 | Article for "Images des Mathématiques" [Kevin Perrot pour RubENS] (In french) |
| Septembre 2013 | Tribute to RubENS with the T-shirt Son's of Turing |
| 18 au 21 Novembre 2013 | RubENS do the show on the Inria booth at SC'13 at Denver (Colorado. US) |
| Mars 2014 | RubENS@Chile. A project to build a second machine at the Universidad Aldolfo Ibañez in Santiago. |
| Du 30 avril au 28 septembre 2014 | Showroom Eurêka at Geneva (Switzerland) |
| 30 mai 2015 | Shooting TV show "Le Pr Durand-Jones et l'incroyable histoire de l'ordinateur" for Ondes de Choc series, Game One. |
| Juillet-Août 2018 | RubENS is in the magazine Découverte N°417 (Revue du palais de la découverte) |
| Décembre 2018 | New edition of the Son's of Turing T-shirt from the DI. |
| 4 Décembre 2018 | RubENS for les "treize minutes" à Marseille. "L’ordinateur le plus lent du monde" by Kevin Perrot. |