site: cluster run — 6 bundles

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+title: "The working parts, left on show"
+date: 2026-07-28
+tags: [daily-finds, hardware, curiosity]
+description: "Five machines that were built with the mechanism deliberately left where you can watch it operate."
+blurb: "Five machines that keep the lid off, so the part doing the work is the part you look at."
+items:
+  - discrete6502
+  - cayin-cp6
+  - marbles-on-piano-strings
+  - semisim-transistor-animations
+  - ants-phenakistoscope-turntable
+---
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+> Most engineering hides the moving part behind a case. These five do the opposite: a processor with a light on every register bit, vacuum tubes standing in the open, a piano's string bed under a layer of glass, charge carriers rendered as coloured swarms, and an animation flattened onto a disc so you can see every frame at once.