Mechanica — A Digital Museum of Ancient Chinese Machines
Four lost ancient Chinese machines reborn as physically-simulated, source-cited interactive exhibits — with a GPT-5.6 docent that refuses to hallucinate.
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What it does
Mechanica reconstructs four machines from ancient China as physically simulated, interactive museum exhibits. Every exhibit is backed by cited sources, and its language-model docent is constrained to answer only from them rather than improvising.
Awards
- 2026OpenAI Build Week1st Place | Education
Source & verification
Source: Devpost
Verified: Aug 26, 2026
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