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Wooden-Made Binary Adding Machine
Some math-and-woodcraft savant has built a binary adding machine made of wood and powered by falling marbles. If I’d had this during my University Boolean Math class, I would have grasped binary (and logic) a lot faster. 
The “official website”: Binary marble adding machine.
Source, Reddit.
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