Automatic Mechanical Self Replication (vimeo.com)

Watching that made me think the first Von Neumann Universal Constructor would be built by a carpenter.

Very interesting. Thank you.

For more, see the 1958 paper by L. S. Penrose: http://vxheavens.com/lib/mlp01.html

or the shorter one authored with his son Roger Penrose http://www.aeiveos.com/~bradbury/Authors/Computing/Penrose-L...

Seems like a fun shop project!

If you uploaded this, please de-interlace it (that's what's causing those horizontal stripes)