{"id":208556,"date":"2025-03-13T05:07:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T10:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/andersons-water-computer-springs-a-leak-and-thats-okay"},"modified":"2025-03-13T05:07:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T10:07:52","slug":"andersons-water-computer-springs-a-leak-and-thats-okay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/andersons-water-computer-springs-a-leak-and-thats-okay","title":{"rendered":"Anderson\u2019s Water Computer Springs A Leak and That\u2019s Okay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/andersons-water-computer-springs-a-leak-and-thats-okay.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Glen Anderson\u2019s created an analog computer that uses water to demonstrate digital logic<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A computer that uses water instead of electricity? That\u2019s what Glen Anderson and his daughter, Dale, are demonstrating at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend. He invites kids to fill buckets and dump them into one of four water tanks. On Friday, I asked him how it was going. \u201cI am adding 1 and 1 but getting 1,\u201d he said. Something was wrong and he was working to fix it.<\/p>\n<p>Glen said his goal for the project was to demystify how computers \u201cthink\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glen Anderson\u2019s created an analog computer that uses water to demonstrate digital logic A computer that uses water instead of electricity? That\u2019s what Glen Anderson and his daughter, Dale, are demonstrating at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend. He invites kids to fill buckets and dump them into one of four water tanks. On Friday, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}