Difference Engines: Mechanical Brains, Analog Computers - STEMpunk

Before the digital era engineers and tradespeople built elegant engines of logic to aid in their calculations. Visit a world where bones, beads, and cogs are the cutting edge of computation and learn the analog foundations of our digital computer age. Part of a free webcast series from STEMpunkED (STEMpunkED.com) to highlight our innovative (and unusual) programming that explores STEM+Arts & Humanities topics using hands-on technology from the 17th to early 20th centuries ... anything before the evil laziness of the microchip. We teach how STEM was done for the 500 years that came before the last 50 years. Visit our website for a host of FREE RESOURCES for teaching and learning about our topics. Resources include reusable activities, 2D and 3D print files, online simulations for our computing artifacts, and more!