A Lisp Machine

Sorta. Kedalion Daimon has a really interesting project in which he takes an old Brother EP 44 adds an Arduino Due and the very definition of a Rube Goldberg power supply to build a makeshift Lisp machine. It’s a Lisp machine because the Arduino is running David Johnson-Davies’ uLisp and the EP 44 is serving as a terminal.

This is, of course, by no means a “real” Lisp Machine. Daimon even had to write his own editor for the machine. Even if it’s not Emacs, it was powerful enough to allow the entering of simple Lisp functions, which the uLisp would then execute.

Daimon produced a video showing the machine and demonstrating its use. It’s unlikely that you could use the machine for serious work but it’s awesome as a side project. After all, how many of us can say we built our own Lisp Machine?

Thanks to Wilfred Hughes for the link.

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