After spending more time and money than I have—designing various chance cards,  inserting bearings into laser cut plastic discs and cutting wood—I built a biased wheel. It has a slight wobble, which causes it to stop in or around the same position every time. No good for generating random results.

After spending a day pulling my hair out and getting back to the drawing board, I found a great article  about Murphy, a Random Mechanical Cascade Machine, built in the late 1970′s to test theories of chance and randomness (and the difficulties that man has in playing along).

Read the article here

This entry was posted on November 28, 2009 at 7:44 pm and is filed under Uncategorized with tags chance, gaussian curve, Random, stochastic predictions. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.