Hacking with Gears & the Programing inside The Antikythera Device.Diomidis Spinellis (2012)

Here is a puzzle For You!!! What is this…

Its portable, needs no power source, Its Re-settable and made from non-corrosive materials! Has Input and Output and 3 Display units! Dual Re-settable needles that ride grooved platters!!!It Drives three simultaneous display modules, one with moving visual basic 3D graphics!

Can handle Differential Equations & multi-directional drive lines. Can track two solar Bodies simultaneously, and ones position in the Zodiac relative to the Precession of the Equinox. Is Resettable by Shifting 8 hours every round to Time an Eclipse!

Has multiple pe-programed computed LOOK-up tables (amount of teeth on gear & Size of wheel) Can keep impeccable count of 19 Tropical years,235 synodic Rotations & 6939 days and can Minus 1 day every 76 years.
Has the Entire system designed into (Modules/Little rooms doing a job), And re-use of all parts, some even three times over! Can Calculate the Size & Velocity of The Moon by moving a small pin up and down inside a slot inside a wheel!

And in the same way a circuit board is designed from the ground up to have all traces/little roads with preset speed limits) set to equalize (latency/Arrival time) the gears are also set to allow contact with latency calculations preset into the timing/size of gears!!!

It’s the wonderful computational Device found near Antikythera!!!

Now Look at what technological development of reversed engineering has done in just (300 years) of recent time and ask yourself what you think (Really) happened in the past couple thousand years? How much time Really went by?, how many prototypes were made on paper before this device was actually made?
So just how many people worked on this project? Just what did they Teach in Engineering school? And how many of these were made? Did they come stock with all the text filled in or were they left bank so people of different languages could adapt the device later to ones own language/character set?
Team YMN 2013


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The Mechanism of Antikythera is an astronomical calculator from the first century B.C. Its currently agreed-on model consists of 35 gears. Its back face contains four dials tracing a luni-solar calendar and an eclipse prediction table. A number of interlocked gears calculate the ratios required for moving the four dials. The front face shows the sun's and the moon's positions in the zodiac. The elliptical anomaly of the moon is calculated by advancing one gear eccentrically through another and mounting that assembly on a gear rotating according to the moon's long axis precession period. The mechanism's design eerily foreshadows a number of modern computing concepts from the fields of digital design, programming, and software engineering.

The talk will briefly go over the mechanism's provenance and the modern history of its study, focusing on recent findings that an international cross-disciplinary team of scientists obtained through surface imaging and high-resolution X-ray tomography. The talk will offer a detailed explanation of the mechanism's operation by presenting a Squeak EToys-based emulator that is built and operates entirely on mechanical principles.