{"id":235,"date":"2007-06-25T16:12:27","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T00:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modd3d.com\/articles\/?p=235"},"modified":"2011-07-11T16:18:39","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T00:18:39","slug":"binary-marble-adding-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.modd3d.com\/articles\/item\/binary-marble-adding-machine","title":{"rendered":"Binary Marble Adding Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matthias Wandel built an impressive <a href=\"http:\/\/woodgears.ca\/marbleadd\/\" target=\"_blank\">binary adding machine<\/a> using wood and marbles. You load the binary numbers you want to add in the top, placing a marble wherever you want a &#8216;1&#8217;, then a series of mechanical flipflops does the adding. The resulting number is dumped out the bottom for reading. 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