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title: "The working parts, left on show"
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date: 2026-07-28
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tags: [daily-finds, hardware, curiosity]
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description: "Five machines that were built with the mechanism deliberately left where you can watch it operate."
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blurb: "Five machines that keep the lid off, so the part doing the work is the part you look at."
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items:
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- discrete6502
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- cayin-cp6
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- marbles-on-piano-strings
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- semisim-transistor-animations
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- 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.
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