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Impossible Machines

Impossible Machines

Challenges

1 · Make a detour 2 · Beat the brake 3 · Guided turn Freeform bench

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Impossible Machines works best in landscape, where there’s room to explore the mechanism.

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Sources

Crank Weight

Block Brake Guide

Obstacles Sinks

Bell Door

Tap the bell to show what you want it to do.

Ring bell×

− Working design

Other designs What is this?

A prototype of what declarative programming may look like for the physical world. Show the system what you want, and watch a mechanism appear. Move the sink, place an obstacle, change the shape. Describe the world, not as it is, but as you wish it to be.

A thought experiment by @bhaprayan