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    <title>General Mechanism's Chat</title>
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      <title>Digi-Comp II Binary Mechanical Computer</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 05:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.phlatforum.com/xenforo/threads/digi-comp-ii-binary-mechanical-computer.2296/</link>
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      <author>invalid@example.com (ToxicToast)</author>
      <dc:creator>ToxicToast</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Found this to be incredibly cool! Might take a lot of foam but would be an awesome project!<br />
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<a href="http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/dciivid" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/dciivid</a><br />



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		<blockquote class="quoteContainer"><div class="quote">For those of you just joining us: The Digi-Comp II is a classic 1960&#039;s educational computer kit-- an automatic binary digital mechanical computer, capable of conducting basic operations like adding, multiplying, subtracting, dividing, counting, and so forth. These operations are...</div><div class="quoteExpand">Click to expand...</div></blockquote>
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</div><a href="http://www.phlatforum.com/xenforo/threads/digi-comp-ii-binary-mechanical-computer.2296/" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">Digi-Comp II Binary Mechanical Computer</a>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Animate Motor Designs</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 08:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.phlatforum.com/xenforo/threads/animate-motor-designs.2316/</link>
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      <author>invalid@example.com (jovian)</author>
      <dc:creator>jovian</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Thougt I would post this in case anyone was interested. I thought it was neat. Particularly for when we get the 3D printer working <br />
<a href="http://www.animatedengines.com/co2.shtml" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">http://www.animatedengines.com/co2.shtml</a>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Ferris Wheel</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.phlatforum.com/xenforo/threads/ferris-wheel.1821/</link>
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      <author>invalid@example.com (navionflyer)</author>
      <dc:creator>navionflyer</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[My daughter had to do a book report on &quot;The Five People You Meet in Heaven&quot; and had to do a display to go with the presentation.  She decided to make a Ferris Wheel since the character was a Ferris Wheel operator.  We talked about it and I told her that we could make it out of blue-cor.  So I showed her how to draw it in Sketchup.  She drew it all up with some help and I cut it out this weekend.  One of the sheets used the tabless method.  Anyway, here are some pictures.  If anyone wants, I...<br />
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<a href="http://www.phlatforum.com/xenforo/threads/ferris-wheel.1821/" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">Ferris Wheel</a>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Here's a neat old machine, tractor-based</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.phlatforum.com/xenforo/threads/heres-a-neat-old-machine-tractor-based.1097/</link>
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      <author>invalid@example.com (Anonymous)</author>
      <dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[A friend sent me this link: <a href="http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,213971.0/topicseen.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/ ... cseen.html</a><br />
Ol&#039; Henry Ford was a smart cookie!]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Robotics</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.phlatforum.com/xenforo/threads/robotics.1286/</link>
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      <author>invalid@example.com (frankmcneilll)</author>
      <dc:creator>frankmcneilll</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hi All,<br />
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This is to suggest a robotics section for our phlatforum. Some owners of phlatprinters and the phlatformers and BalsaBuddies Mark and Trish are developing will transition from hobbyists to small scale industrialists and discover a need for programmable assembly stations. Phlatprinters can cut phlat-gears, cams, levers, etc. that would be needed then. I found a bunch of examples of modular robotic components on YouTube at...<br />
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<a href="http://www.phlatforum.com/xenforo/threads/robotics.1286/" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">Robotics</a>]]></content:encoded>
      <slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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      <title>Lego Manuals</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:29:16 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.phlatforum.com/xenforo/threads/lego-manuals.1238/</link>
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      <author>invalid@example.com (kram242)</author>
      <dc:creator>kram242</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[This site from the Netherlands has scans of all the Lego instruction manuals ever. The scans are also available through FTP<br />
I thought that this may be a good resource to help visualize a certain mechanism<br />
<a href="http://www.brickfactory.info/" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">http://www.brickfactory.info/</a>]]></content:encoded>
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