使用LEGO建造複雜的機器

Building Complex Machines Using LEGO®　　by Andrew Carol

使用LEGO®建造複雜的機器　作者：Andrew Carol

Machines have long been used to ease repetitive labor. The machines I found most interesting eased the labor of calculation; watches, orrerys, calculators, difference engines, etc. Gears were the workhorse of this age reaching their zenith during the late 19th century only to decline as they were replaced with transisters for most computation.

機器長期被用來減輕重複的勞動。我發現最令人感興趣的機器是減輕計算的勞動類的：如手表，太陽系儀，電腦，差分機，等等。齒輪是他們在第19世紀晚期這個時代能夠達到的頂尖重負荷機器，用于大部分計算，隻是被半導體替代後才衰落了。

Having always loved complex mechanical devices, and never having fully outgrown LEGO, I decided to explore where computational mechanics and LEGO meet. This is not LEGO as toy, art, or even the MindStorms® fusion of LEGO and digital electronics. This is almost where Steampunk and LEGO meet. Hand cranked devices that perform complex mechanical tasks.

總是喜歡複雜的機械裝置，而且一直對LEGO興趣盎然，我決定探索計算機械和LEGO的交彙點。 這不是把LEGO作為玩具，而是藝術，或者甚至是LEGO MindStorms®套件和數字化電子裝置的融合。這差不多就是蒸汽朋克Steampunk和LEGO的交彙點了。手動曲柄裝置執行複雜的機械任務。

Automaton made with LEGO　

用LEGO制作自動機

The 2011 movie “Hugo” is about the adventures of boy who repairs an automaton, a mechanical machine which can handwrite a message. His automaton looked like a boy with a complex clock-work inside.

2011年電影“雨果Hugo”是關于一個男孩修複機器人的冒險故事，這台機械機器人能夠手寫一條資訊。他的自動化看起來象一個體内含有複雜工作鐘的男孩。

I left the theatre convinced that I could make a machine, using LEGO, that could write any short message I desired. The resulting LEGO mechanism does not look like a boy, but it is a purely mechanical hand-cranked machine that will move a pen to write short messages of up to 150 pen strokes.

我離開劇場确信我能做一台機器，使用LEGO，他能夠書寫我期望的任何短資訊。作成的LEGO機器看起來不象一個男孩，而是一個純粹機械的手動的機器，它從移動１支鋼筆寫短的資訊到多達移動150支鋼筆寫短資訊。

“雨果Hugo”豆瓣介紹：http://movie.douban.com/subject/2028677/

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Babbage Difference Engine made with LEGO

用LEGO搭建巴貝奇差分機

This is the 3rd generation of Babbage Difference Engine made with LEGO. It is modeled after Babbages Difference Engine #1. The 3rd generation operates five times faster than the 2nd generation.

這是用LEGO搭建的第三代巴貝奇差分機。它誕生于巴貝奇差分機#1之後。第三代比第二代快五倍。

This machine can evaluate polynomials of the form Ax^2 + Bx + C for x=0, 1, 2, …n with 3 digit results.

這台機器能求Ax^2 + Bx + C for x=0, 1, 2, …n形式的多項式的3個數字結果。

A new answer is produced every 20 turns of the crank: 10 turns of the crank adds the bottom two digit register into the middle two digit register. The next 10 turns of the crank adds the midlde two digit register into the top three digit accumulator, yielding the next result.

　　曲柄每20個旋轉産生１個一個新答案：曲柄的10個旋轉把底部兩個數字寄存器添加到中間兩個數字寄存器中。 曲柄的下10個旋轉把中間兩個數字寄存器添加到頂端三個數字累加器中，産生下一個結果。

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Antikythera Mechanism (Eclipse Predictor) made with LEGO

用LEGO 建造Antikythera（日食月食預報器）

This machine, modeled after the ancient Greek original, can calulate the date and time of solar and lunar eclipses over a hundred year period.

　　這個機器，模仿自古希臘人的原創，能夠計算一百年期間内日蝕和月蝕發生的日期和時間。

It is an analog computer with over 100 gears and 7 differential gearboxes. It is accurate to a day or two over it’s range.

　　它是一台具有超過100個齒輪和7個變速箱的模拟計算機。它能精确到一二天的範圍。

Five turns of the central yellow handle advances the machine one year. The dials on the left represent the Saros cycle of lunar months. The dials on the right represent the positions of the sun and moon against the zodiac.

　　中心黃色搖桿旋轉５輪驅使機器運作一年。左邊的标度盤表示太陰月的沙羅（Saros）周期循環。右邊的标度盤表示太陽和月亮相對黃道帶的位置。

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Acknowledgments. 鳴謝

I would like to thank Steve Wozniak for the generous use of his server space for this page.

　　我要感謝Steve Wozniak為此網頁慷慨提供伺服器空間。

LEGO and the brick configuration are trademarks of the LEGO Group, which does not sponsor, authorize or endorse this Web site.

　　LEGO和積木輪廓是LEGO集團的商标，該集團公司不是本網站的主辦者，授權人和準許者。

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