On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Jules Richardson wrote:
You've got gravity. Dry sand flows pretty well.
Bamboo is hollow and so
can be used to channel dry sand around. Different lengths of bamboo
could be used to introduce delays. Doubtless you could make basic logic
gates.
I think you'd have better luck lighting a fire with the bamboo and
smelting the sand to make silicon and go straight for IC technology.
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