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Hey HN! I'm very proud of sharing this project with you all, after ~2 years of starts and stops, and about 5 different attempts at making it. Context/history: In 1961, the Minivac 601 [0], an educational electronics kit - somewhat similar to those "300 circuits in one" you may have had growing up as I did - was created by none other than Claude Shannon. The Minivac is disarmingly simple: it consists roughly speaking of 6 relays, 12 lights, 6 buttons, and a motorized wheel. You'd think that it couldn't really do much. Well, amazingly, it can do a lot. You can wire up the components in a…

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