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Reminds me of Mindstorms: http://www.amazon.com/Mindstorms-Children-Computers-Powerful-Ideas/dp/0465046746?tag=duckduckgo-d-20 http://www.amazon.com/Mindstorms-Children-Computers-Powerful... In the intro of the book Seymour A. Papert describes how gears provided an early concrete framework that made understanding abstract mathematical concepts presented at a later point much easier to visualize and apply.