OT:techology

[Jules Richardson]

On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 09:06 -0800, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> 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.

Can you make batteries from bamboo though?