My (hopefully) epic school project!

[MelvinS4_]

Sounds pretty good, altough as I said, you're going to need lots of motors for that.
You see, there's going to be tons of stuff moving (atleast 3 gears for a xor gate) so there's going to be huge amounts of friction too!

Building it out of wood sounds like a great plan! That is, if you know how to work with it :p

I was wondering.. Can I add you on skype? We could brainstorm together a little bit on how you (and I) would create such a thing. Maybe even collaborate a little bit.

Though I won't make anything that even slightly resembles a xor The machine will not contain a single logic component the way I've planned it. Ofc there will be lots of moving parts but I'll try to combat that by only having one piece of it operate at a time (if the whole thing was to operate simultaeniously it would also require pipelining, something I've never gotten the hang of ).

The biggest problem I'm having right now is how to "mass produce" the gears. I will need a large amount of them and don't feel like making them all by hand ideas?

As for Skype, I'm not quite comfortable talking over the interwebs but I have no problem with discussing here on the forum (via pm) or by mail.