Show HN: I brute-forced a wooden Antikythera-style puzzle in Rust

Show HN: I brute-forced a wooden Antikythera-style puzzle in Rust(github.com)

2 points by garyhtou 31 days ago | 2 comments

combining physical woodworking /puzzles with brute -forcing is the ultimate hacker news crossover .did you write a custom script or simulation to map out the gear combinations, use an existing constraint solver ?

garyhtou 26 days ago | |

I wrote a custom script and started by representing the physical puzzle as JSON!

https://github.com/garyhtou/grecian-computer/blob/main/puzzl...