Andrew Carol, an engineer at Apple, has rebuilt a model of the ancient Antikythera Mechanism entirely out of Lego blocks. Watch this amazing 3-minute video: A fuller story behind all this is here. I ...

I thought I was doing good when I build a Lego play set that actually looks like the image on the box when I am done. This dude named Andrew Carol has just built what might be the most epic Lego ...

An Apple engineer has recreated the Antikythera Mechanism, an ancient Greek computer built to predict astronomical events, entirely out of Lego. The gear-driven Antikythera Mechanism is thought to ...

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Whenever I tried to make large mechanisms like that (but way less complex) out of technical Lego when I was younger, I always found that the twisting tended to make the gears push apart, jamming their ...

If you’re looking for the perfect way to begin your geek weekend, look no further than the video below. If the screenshot we posted above doesn’t tell you much about what you’re going to see, here’s ...

Here’s a brand new stop motion video of a reconstruction of the world’s first mechanical computer, directed by occasional Technology Review contributor John Pavlus. It’s entirely self-explanatory: ...

Welcome, visitors from StumbleUpon! Like what you see here? Check out PCWorld’s GeekTech blog for more hacks and DIY tech, or follow us on Facebook or Twitter. 2000 years ago the Greeks built a device ...

Recovered in 1901 from a shipwreck off Crete, the Antikythera Mechanism is a sophisticated device, predating similar technology by over 1,000 years to accurately predict solar and lunar eclipses and ...

The Lego Antikythera does its calculations in a less direct manner, requiring more than 100 prefab gears assembled into several modules, each performing separate bits of math. Then seven differentials ...