{"id":830,"date":"2016-09-08T11:47:30","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T15:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=830"},"modified":"2016-09-07T16:52:24","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T20:52:24","slug":"prepare-your-brain-for-razzle-dazzle-pierre-jaquet-drozs-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2016\/09\/prepare-your-brain-for-razzle-dazzle-pierre-jaquet-drozs-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"Prepare Your Brain for RAZZLE-DAZZLE: Pierre Jaquet-Droz&#8217;s &#8220;Writer&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bY_wfKVjuJM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re at all mechanically minded, you&#8217;re going to start our sort of underwhelmed, since the solution seems pretty transparent: Any determined craftsman could get similar results with a homebrew <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pantograph\">pantograph<\/a> and template (hell, you could do it in LEGO).<\/p>\n<p>But keep watching. \u00a0You&#8217;ll get more impressed around the 2-minute mark when you see the mechanism, and more so around 2:40 when you see the cams and realize that the device isn&#8217;t tracing letterforms, but rather, in a mechanical sense, understands a series of modular strokes than can be built up in different arrangements to form different letters. Finally,\u00a0you&#8217;ll totally shit yourself at 3:55 because this damned thing\u2014built in the late 1700s\u2014was <em>programmable<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>0.o<\/p>\n<p>Absolutely stunning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re at all mechanically minded, you&#8217;re going to start our sort of underwhelmed, since the solution seems pretty transparent: Any determined craftsman could get similar results with a homebrew pantograph and template (hell, you could do it in LEGO). But keep watching. \u00a0You&#8217;ll get more impressed around the 2-minute mark when you see the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2016\/09\/prepare-your-brain-for-razzle-dazzle-pierre-jaquet-drozs-writer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Prepare Your Brain for RAZZLE-DAZZLE: Pierre Jaquet-Droz&#8217;s &#8220;Writer&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[26,21,23,41,31],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":833,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions\/833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}