A Deterministic Mechanical Hardware Model for the Voynich MS 408 - The Syntaxis Volvella
Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2026 8:00 am
Access the complete mechanical model and documentation here: https://zenodo.org/records/18711767
The Voynich Manuscript isn't an unbreakable cipher, it’s the output of a deterministic 3-ring mechanical automaton. Here is the machine decoding Folio 1r in real-time, utilizing the EVA transcription and digital glyph foundry: https://www.voynich.nu/transcr.html

Everything from the Python rendering engine to the JSON hardware blueprints and the synthetic text generator is now fully open source and ready for peer review.
Steven Quevedo
stevendistinto@gmail.com
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/steven-alexander-quevedo-vinueza
The Voynich Manuscript isn't an unbreakable cipher, it’s the output of a deterministic 3-ring mechanical automaton. Here is the machine decoding Folio 1r in real-time, utilizing the EVA transcription and digital glyph foundry: https://www.voynich.nu/transcr.html

Everything from the Python rendering engine to the JSON hardware blueprints and the synthetic text generator is now fully open source and ready for peer review.
Steven Quevedo
stevendistinto@gmail.com
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/steven-alexander-quevedo-vinueza