{"id":38380,"date":"2010-12-11T04:42:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T04:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jordanhthonextract2.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/11\/more-lego-stopmotion-goodies-for-octopunk-apple-engineer-recreating-2000-year-old-computer-using-lego"},"modified":"2011-09-23T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T04:00:00","slug":"more-lego-stopmotion-goodies-for-octopunk-apple-engineer-recreating-2000-year-old-computer-using-lego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/more-lego-stopmotion-goodies-for-octopunk-apple-engineer-recreating-2000-year-old-computer-using-lego\/","title":{"rendered":"More LEGO STOPMOTION Goodies For Octopunk: Apple Engineer Recreating 2000-Year-Old Computer Using Lego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/ns\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-import\/2010\/12\/lego.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/ns\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-import\/2010\/12\/lego-w=300.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>This is unbelievably cool! An Apple Software Engineer (big surprise) named Andrew Carol has successfully recreated &#8220;the famous Antikythera Mechanism, created by ancient Greeks in 100 B.C. as a way of predicting astronomical events like eclipses&#8221; out of LEGO (as documented in a stop-motion film, no less). The interview is very interesting; it&#8217;s a discussion that would be fruitful even if it was just an intriguing hypothetical in a discussion of machines and the guy <i>hadn&#8217;t<\/i> actually gone ahead and done it (Using LEGO!!!) Counting gear teeth, no less&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcodesign.com\/1662831\/watch-an-apple-engineer-recreate-a-2000-year-old-computer-using-legos\">http:\/\/www.fastcodesign.com\/1662831\/watch-an-apple-engineer-recreate-a-2000-year-old-computer-using-legos<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/17244873-5853320652333766990?l=horrorthon.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is unbelievably cool! An Apple Software Engineer (big surprise) named Andrew Carol has successfully recreated &#8220;the famous Antikythera Mechanism, created by ancient Greeks in 100 B.C. as a way of predicting astronomical events like eclipses&#8221; out of LEGO (as documented in a stop-motion film, no less). The interview is very interesting; it&#8217;s a discussion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horrorthon_posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38380"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41176,"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38380\/revisions\/41176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}