Building Hero of Alexandria’s Programmable Automata by Hand

In this rather mesmerizing video, Fraser reconstructs one of the ancient Greek engineer Hero’s programmable automata. He builds everything by hand, starting with turning trees into lumber. The whole process is fascinating to watch and the mechanisms are ingenious.

After putting it all together, he finds issues with various systems and goes to work troubleshooting and repairing.

Inspiring stuff.

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