And in 1967, the manual How to Build a Working Digital Computer — a book that explains just how to build a computer out of paper clips—came out. Okay, so you need more than just paper clips.

This book did as the title promised: you could build a working digital computer. The components, though, were paper clips, tin cans, thread spools, and other household items.

In this project you will build one using a rubber band. It stores potential energy, which gives extra kinetic energy (motion energy) to the paper airplane—even over a short distance.

A step-by-step account of how one enterprising tech geek put together a not-too-shabby computer from old parts at a bare minimum cost.

A computer with free will? And so I tried to model that behavior in the simplest most direct way, starting with a generic goal seeking computer program that responds to inputs from the environment.

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A computer with free will? And so I tried to model that behaviour in the simplest, most direct way, starting with a generic goal-seeking computer program that responds to inputs from the environment.