Thesis about emulating the Brunsviga 13 RK

Emulation of the decadic calculating machine Brunsviga 13 RK
paper as part of the T3100 exam at the Cooperative State University Baden Württemberg.

Source of the research paper written at the cooperative state university Baden-Württemberg for the course informationtechnology at the faculty of technology. Subject of research is the simulation of the mechanical calculator "Brunsviga 13 RK" from the 1950s. The overall goal is to be able to be able to operate a virtual calculator via a web based interface. See the official repository of the project for updates here.

The project was conducted from 15.10.2024 to 15.04.2025.

Document

Typst was chosen as typesetting language for its modernized syntax based on asciidoc and useful scripting capabilities.

This document makes use a custom template specifically developed for writing thesis at the cooperative state university Baden-Württemberg. Source of the template can be found at its GitHub mirror here.

Build Locally

For building locally the Typst compiler is required. Install via your preferred package manager. Make sure you use at least v0.12.0. More recent version may not be working properly due to Typst being in prerelease.

For simplified compilation use the Makefile:

make build

This will result in the compiled file stored in the root folder of the repository as ${TYPST_FILE_PATH}.${TYPST_FILE_TYPE}. Where these values are provided by the .env file.

Configuration

Primary configuration of the compilation process is written into the .env file. It contains configuration options for:

Options name	Type	Default
TYPST_FILE_PATH	string	44124_emulation-of-the-brunsviga-13-rk
TYPST_FILE_TYPE	string	pdf
TYPST_MAIN	string	src/main.typ

Bibtex reference

@techreport{Brunsviga13rkVogelMüller2025,
  title       = "Emulation of the decadic calculating machine Brunsviga 13 RK",
  author      = "Sven Vogel, Felix L. Müller",
  institution = "Cooperative State University Baden Württemberg",
  address     = "Baden-Württemberg, Germany",
  year        = 2025,
  month       = april
}