{"id":1591,"date":"2012-04-16T15:52:18","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T21:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/?p=1591"},"modified":"2012-04-16T15:52:18","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T21:52:18","slug":"pinball_cpu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=1591","title":{"rendered":"Pinball CPU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an ingenious contraption:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"274\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0H4LTOYpAM4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The creator, Lior Elazary, provides a full explanation of the clock <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/Mechanical-CPU-Clock\/?ALLSTEPS\">here<\/a>, along with instructions for building your own. Here&#8217;s my favorite part of the instructions:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Start by creating a 12\u201d diameter disc and attach a Flip-Flop to it. A Flip-Flop is a device that alternates its state with a given input. For example, a politician might change his stance on a specific issue based on some event, and then will change it back based on another event. In that case, we say he is a Flip-Flop, and we might be able to build a computer out of him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/hardware.slashdot.org\/story\/12\/04\/16\/1856244\/mechanical-cpu-clock\">via<\/a> Slashdot]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an ingenious contraption: The creator, Lior Elazary, provides a full explanation of the clock here, along with instructions for building your own. Here&#8217;s my favorite part of the instructions: Start by creating a 12\u201d diameter disc and attach a Flip-Flop to it. A Flip-Flop is a device that alternates its state with a given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}