I have such great admiration for these sorts of hackers. I really do love advanced clockwork (the Dr. Who episode with the clockwork ship crew that goes back to

I have such great admiration for these sorts of hackers. I really do love advanced clockwork (the Dr. Who episode with the clockwork ship crew that goes back to capture Madame de Pompadour comes to mind). Clockwork is, to me, the essence of hardware. As an aside, it would be extremely cool if someone (maybe I would try my hand at it in the future) could create a sort of Hardware Description Language for clockwork, the same way we have VHDL and Verilog for circuits.