Comment by JKCalhoun
6 hours ago
I took a deep dive for 12 months on how analog computers work(ed) and the result was a little kit and book that represent a kind of analog computer primer [1]. In short I took what I learned over the year and made something that would fast track others (you can probably go through the manual + kit in about two weeks and know as much as I do now).
I had originally wanted to get one of those Analog Things but was a little put off by the price (so of course I spent close to an order of magnitude more to develop my own analog computer).
(The ESP32 I added for the backend, to display the voltages/values [2], is, I think, the coolest thing I contributed to the hobbyist analog-computer niche.)
[1] https://www.tindie.com/products/jcalhoun/anna-analog-compute...
[2] https://github.com/EngineersNeedArt/Anna-Analog-Computer/tre...
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