Clark, DouglasAdrados, Diogo2015-06-262026-09-292015-06-262026-09-292015-04-302015-06-26http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp018s45qc104https://theses-dissertations.princeton.edu/handle/88435/dsp018s45qc104This project revisits a 42-year-old Turing Machine to port its arcane and cumbersome coding interface to new technologies. The original programming board is disassembled and analyzed, the machine process imitated on a microcontroller, and conventions that are easy to read, maintain, and apply to existing educational tools are applied to this new technology in hardware, for a product that has the appeal of its physicality and history with a newfound ease of use. We hope that this machine can find a place in our collective cultural history of computer science, and be a tool of historical and theoretical education.22 pagesen-USMODERNIZING A TURING MACHINEPrinceton University Senior Theses