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Classic tiny LEGO computer brick design from 1979 made into full-scale working computer

A Dutch designer has crafted a 10:1 scale working model of the classic wedge-shaped LEGO computer brick Part 3039p23 with a ...
Forbes

You’ve Heard Of Computer-Aided Design. What About Computer-Aided Biology?

In the early days of the semiconductor industry, integrated circuits were designed by one or two engineers with slide-rules, hand-drawn on paper, and then given to a lithographer to print onto silicon ...
Electronic Design

What Computer Had the Biggest Impact on You?

We're creating image galleries from your responses to the survey below. Keep checking back as we add new galleries to the mix: Your First Computer - Suggestions from readers Don't forget the survey at ...
Singularity Hub

A Google AI Designed a Computer Chip as Well as a Human Engineer—But Much Faster

AI has finally come full circle. A new suite of algorithms by Google Brain can now design computer chips—those specifically tailored for running AI software—that vastly outperform those designed by ...
MD&M East

Using Computer-Aided Design to Enhance Product Development

Computer-aided designs, such as this model of a fingertip-sized heart pump, can reduce the number of physical prototypes that must be made. Computer-aided design (CAD) is a tool intended to facilitate ...
Electronic Design

What Computer Had the Biggest Impact on You? Your First Computer

This gallery is part of the What Computer Had the Biggest Impact on You? series. Also, read more articles in the 70th Anniversary issue. I received lots of feedback about the first computer you used, ...