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Greetings Ladies and Gentlemen!

Within these pages you will find documentation of a new fabrication that recently emerged from my second floor laboratory: an automated locomotive computation engine. This wondrous device is actually able to sense its environment and make intelligent decisions to control its locomotion. Its intent and purpose is to engage in a challenge of skill against other machines of its kind in a fast-paced competition, the goal of which is to accumulate a depth of respect and reputation (tallied by points) among other scientists skilled in the art of fabrication.
 
The design and assembly of said machine occurred at Stanford University as part of a course on the design of so-called "smart" products (colloquially entitled ME 218b) in the year two thousand and eight; slightly later than my counterparts in the Victorian and Art Nouveau eras, but equally at home among peers of that time.

Please indulge yourselves in perusing the details of this device, including images taken by the new camera obscura, copy of notebook entries, diagrams and descriptions, as well as a detailed account of the artificial intelligence imbued by its internal clockwork mechanisms. I hope that this modest report maintains your interest, friends.

Most Sincerely Yours,
Dr Von Sirlevson

David Sirkin, Nora Levinson, and Benjie Nelson