The OG Computer: How to Make Your Own Abacus
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- Before we all had computers in our homes, the Ancient Egyptians had the OG: an abacus. In this episode of How to Make Everything, I create my very own precursor to any modern computing machine completely from scratch.
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11:23 Counting systems - using your fingers (*shows x-ray of a hand with 6 fingers*)
I came to the comments to see who else noticed.
@@Robert_RedBeard Not me, (guess I rely on my abacus too much.)
@@Robert_RedBeard Same
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It took me a little while to get used to your, let's call them "limited" results when I first started watching HTME a while back. Once I figured out the whole point you're trying to make about technological progress, it really started to blow my mind. I love the lengths that you go to avoid "cheating," because the struggle really is what this is all about. I was watching the whole lathe project in this episode, and realized that you did all off that, not just to build a lathe... but to build an abucus.... holy cow man. You have earned the heck out of all the subscribers you have. This show gets better with every episode. Great work. Love your well thought out content.
HTME -
2020 - Making the first numbers and abacus
Sometime in the future - Making the first quantum computer
Sometimes even more in the future - Making Dyson spheres in my own solar system
Me - Whats next
HTME - Conquering the universe 👑
But most importantly
Conquering my heart
did you mean: in 5 years
No no no, the next leap after quantum computers would be JUPITER BRAINS
"We are largely a fan funded channel..."
Anything's possible with HTME
Looking forward you synthesising some plastics
Probaly in year 3000
Probably*
nah, he made 1000 years in 2 months, then technologie goes faster after that, so in 5 years maybe
Superbug 3003 10 years satellites
Wonderful video as always. The Lathe v2: Instead of the leather cord of the bow wrapping around the work piece, Cast one of the ends as a shaped cylinder that is held in a cradle allowing it to rotate,. Then wrap the leather cord around this cast cylinder.
You were so close to a decent grinding stone last episode, maybe that should be a focus.
maybe not the best stone for grinding, a sandstone would been better there.
but as a flywheel it would be perfect. and could increase the performance of a lathe with the combination of say an footpedal and "pushrods" to make into circular motion and not back an forth motion like this and the earliest foot-powered ones.
just look up old foot-driven sewing machines, they are really simple in construction for the part that makes the circular motion
Did you ever notice how odd our verbal counting system is? We don't voice the 0 normally, we count 1-12 as a group, then 13-19, finally continuing with groups of 10 (20-29 ECT). I find it fascinating!
It really is.
If you really want to laugh and cry, learn to count in French. "Four score, ten-and-nine" for 99. I'm not even kidding.
I like to think that's subconscious / natural order / hint that it shoulda been base 12.😆
This channel rules! I always learn something new whenever I watch. This is really my favorite type of learning, holistic and historical.
so true
Yesss
Not the most important thing, but your woodworking is looking a lot less like "hacked this with a dull bit of rock" (which was entirely to be expected when that's what you were doing) and a lot more like dimensional lumber. Also love the bronze center points for the lathe, that was a really clever way to do that.
I guess im asking the wrong place but does any of you know a way to get back into an Instagram account??
I stupidly lost the account password. I love any tips you can offer me
@Ezra Camilo thanks so much for your reply. I got to the site thru google and im in the hacking process now.
Looks like it's gonna take a while so I will reply here later with my results.
@Ezra Camilo It did the trick and I finally got access to my account again. Im so happy!
Thanks so much you saved my ass !
@Kaysen Jaxon glad I could help =)
The people talking about Instagram accounts here is obviously a scam??? How have these comments not been removed???
It's great to see Andy becoming so comfortable on camera. The video quality is just excellent and I learn something new every time.
I might just be hungry but dang those white beads look a lot like powdered donuts
I thought it was just me lol
The whole bow lathe blew my mind. I've made bow drills and the combination seems so intuitive now that I've seen it. I'll be making my own attempt here shortly, thanks for the inspiration!
I like how he uses tools he made in his previous videos.
i still think that you need to evolve those tools a little bit more, not only focus on the deadline
Right. I'd love to see redos of videos once New"age"has been reached.
I agree. They are concerning on posting videos regularly, but those tools are rushed and imprecised, so all the projects end up imprecised as well.
Good point
the deadline was quarantine, so he can't use his workshop nor help from staff
That greensand setup he was using was also definitely using storebought materials. To say nothing of us all giving him the benefit of the doubt on all that suspiciously good-quality bronze and clay he uses...
i look forward to the htme AMD threadripper build
It takes somebody like you to truly appreciate the potential of that abacus. I found out about the abacus back in 2009 and I have been studying it to this very day.
I'm not anywhere as fast as the people in Japan with this instrument but I will tell you my friend I'm in college right now and I got a 3.0. learning how to build houses, any test that comes my way I pass it without a calculator. I started with little rocks pebbles from a river and learned the concepts. by the time I finally finished learning how to use it I had received my first abacus. I wish I would have seen this video back then. I would have had an abacus instead of just pebbles. Thank you for making this video.
1 step closer to silicon doping (if you ever actually want to do this there's a guy called sam zeloof you can watch or meet up with)
We've got time and counting. We want a calendar now!
i like how he did what all civilizations do at the advent of a new technology like the lathe and said "screw it the old way is easier" then made the beads out of clay. of course this will go to the wayside as lathe tech improves... but the first attempt is never the best.
It's been a week I'm trying to give online classes (mainly phone calls and text, photos and videos or links on whatsapp) to my friends and your playlist of the reset is now really helping me thanks to the simplicity of your script and visuals I can't thank you enough for making this video's
This video reminds me of a series I watched a while ago called Mastercrafts. Particularly one called Greenwood Crafts. The guy used a extremely simple pole lathe with only a sapling, some leather rope, and a rig to hold the sapling in place. It was fascinating to watch and I think you might like it. Its still on UA-cam.
Ps. Your explanation on math and numbers gave me flashbacks to my dad's lectures on the importance of the number 0 and how it revolutionized math and how modern calculations would be impossible without it. Since he's a programer I assume he knows what he's talking about. It was just so nostalgic to hear and gave me a warm fuzzy feeling.
I lost it at "Ow! That is sharp!" :D
As a math major, I especially loved this installment.
Andy: Today we carve and cast, tomorrow we compute!
Me: Damn that is fast...
Love the lathe Andy. It may be slow but it does the job.
It's amazing how much work you guys put into these! You should do live streams to give us a true sense of how long it takes! Keep it up!
Honestly, the stuff you made are starting to become really impressive looking. I’d have trouble matching that quality in a modern workshop (not that that says a lot)
Kinda cool how each invention looks better than the last and more complicated. IDK just interests me.
Your back wall looks really great! Not many people have created so many inventions.
7:25 I’m gonna press X to doubt on those perfectly drilled holes haha
Still love your work; keep them coming!
I started watching your videos around the Thanksgiving or Sandwich video. I am impressed by how far you have come. 😁 I look forward to seeing what you do next.
The one thing we take for granted is how to predict the coming of the seasons and knowing the days and months.
Nah people looked at the cycles of the moon (full moon back to full moon=1 month) since the stone age and knowing the season is also rather intuitive. The thing which took us a while was the prediction of eclipses.
Was hoping for base 12 system, but very impressed nonetheless. Great to see all this coming together :)
Great video. I like abacus a lot and bought one for my 3y-o son. he loves it and can count up to 40 now.
Honestly you should get some kind of show on netflix or something, or maybe not, all I'm sayin is that you make some really high quality stuff that youtube probably isn't paying very well for.
Can’t wait till Andy dives into electronics and becomes like that one guy who made the “electric guitar.”
Long time subscriber, Love your videos and channel, keep up the awesome work!
Im gonna start using that babylonian hand counting method that's pretty brilliant honestly
Fun thing about the sexigesimal base for circles: if you take a circle of radius A, select a point on the circumference, draw another circle of radius A, then continue the cycle from the intersection of the two circles, you will get six segments - so the natural division of a circle for any base is radix*6. Some are more natural than others - an angular system based on a binary progression has no issue being recreated from scratch, but other require more work, such as trisecting angles and working from multiple separate divisions (such as 5, 6, and so on) just to create a smaller angle measurement.
If you started a PBS style education channel which left out the crafts but still described number systems as you have, I'd be super into that as well
Hey remember when you fell in the cranberry bog ‽
‽ Which language do you use that symbol in? Just curious if anyone knows
@@atriyakoller136 It's known as an Interrobang and was invented in America but is not widely-used in any language.
It's in outro! (Twice)
Interrobang !
Linecraftman, Ha! I admit it I skip the outro!
I want a featureless white void in my home
Well, who wouldn't?
i think the biggest things i took away from this video was how blown away i was to learn that the base time digits, 12 and 60, is all based on an old counting system.
3:11 did anyone else think he was peeing on it?! LMFAO
I scrolled down immediately to look for a comment about this 😂
you're getting pretty good at milling wood!
This is one of the better episodes!!
When I was a child in Taiwan we learned to use it in elementary school. I'd say I was using it pretty fast but after moving to America I promptly forgot how to use it
Roy Underhill, with the WoodWright Shop (PBS) had a detailed episode on how to make the Bow lathe and other tools,and a dandy horse. Andy should watch as many as he can for industrial/preindustrial Knowledge. once he watches he will defiantly want to make some things with treadles.
Senku:
ahh man this guy is dangerous!!
Hello there fellow weeb
*comes out of lockdown with extremely buff right arm"
"Spent a lot of time with the bow lathe"
You know, now that you have a lathe, paper, and several forms of adhesives, maybe you should work towards sandpaper? It makes a remarkable cutting and shaping tool for a lathe and it's a big help for making finished parts that need to fit tightly together (your lathe had a loose fit on one side that was causing it to wobble a bit, that probably made it much harder to spin than it needed to)
I went with base 12, because it has convenient factors: {1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 12} Then again, I was introduced to "New Math" in public school, and we made our own Abaces. (From kits.)
Amazing! I never would've figured that kinda thing out😅 keep up the great work! Also where's Aniese? I hope she's okay as well as everyone else!
I miss Annalise.
I think something similar to nail could be made by whittling a shape close to a golf tee in wood and predrilling a hole so it'd be a friction fit for your pin/nail
I love what you've done to the chanel
You get more precise cuts with your homemade tools than I do with mordern ones 😂
Since you now have a finer grasp on a numerical system, i think a cool idea for an episode would be a ruler and a fine point pencil.
You have the best music of any youtuber I'm subscribed to, btw.
"in the next episode we're gonna learn how to dope silicon to make high speed compact NAND flash memory using this wooden mallet and a bag of sand."
In the Sahara, at the juncture of a number of ancient trade routes, lies a massive rock - a landmark seen for miles across the desert. Archeologists have discovered carved into the rock a series of pecked holes in a rectangular grid pattern. Most prevalent theory is that this grid is a very basic form of abacus, with pebbles fitting into the holes acting as counters. Estimated age in excess of 5K years.
Soak a piece of leather (or fabric though this dries out faster) in water then wrap it around the sticks. Place the stick in a perfectly strait grove cut into a piece of wood that is shallower than the wrapped stick, and place another piece of wood with a grove on top of it. Then wrap the two with a piece of cord and place a weight on top of them. The grooves and wood surfaces should be flat and uniform to place equal pressure across the surfaces. With the weight and constant moisture from the leather, this will allow you to turn the sticks into perfectly strait dowels. These dowels can be used for the abacus or on the lathe to make easier work with the bow. The method can be used to make a uniform curve to produce a better bow for the lathe. Also, using a piece of rough stone can work as sandpaper with the lathe or without it to smooth surfaces. Smooth strait wood will make many of your projects much easier.
Favorite video so far and haven't even seen it yet
I just wanna say I really like your content because you are a big brain person
One thing that will really improve your work Andy is to reinforce your bench, you're losing so much energy in your strokes with the drawknife and saw because of the wobble in the bench. Its like night and day when you work with a sturdy bench
Now that you are in the Bronze age you can make "non twist" drill bits. Basically it a chisel where the sharp edge is on the opposite side half way through. Make a file using a chisel..
Your one of my favorite youtubers. I am subscribed with the bell active, how am i still missing your videos in my feed? Last one i saw was the toilet paper. The one bright light is that once i see one i can usually binge a few.
Love this series
the piece of sting with charcoal on it for straight lines would have taken me for EVER to figure out.
It's funny how you say could an average person figure it all out for themselves yet you go and seek out all the professionals
whilst in quarantine you could maybe improve some of the bronze/copper tools, like the saw, by shaping the saw theet in a better way you could improve it verry much
quite the explanation of numbering systems. i didn't know about the babylonian finger bone counting.
@How To Make Everything I'm pretty sure you use the egg white as the binding agent for the ink, not the egg yolk. Hopefully, it helps with future projects. I'm not too sure how the egg yolk does it though.
Have you ever wondered why the Chinese abacus is the type of abacus most often cited as the ancestor of digital computer?
The answer to the question may lie in the fact that the Chinese abacus has two heaven beads and five earth beads along each rod, and thus that makes the difference from other types of abaci.
The Chinese abacus is commonly used for working in decimal, but it may be used as well for hexadecimal numbers. Note that when all beads along a rod are set then the sum of bead values would exactly be equal to 15 or F.
Hexadecimal numerals are widely used by computer system designers and programmers because they provide a human-friendly representation of binary-coded values.
Why is everyone writing first? We know it's the first computer already
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lol true
That time we quarintined ourselfs to ancient egypt
i think that you should really start considering bog iron in really small quantities like a small rod for for drilling or small blade for a wood planer
"When you're a fledling civilization starting to deal with thousands of millions of people". I can only think of three civilizations dealing with those quantities. Two of those probably wouldn't like being referred to as fledling, and saying the third is fledling is pretty bleak.
Millions of things like millions of seeds of wheat would have been possible pretty early in the Agricultural Revolution. Tbr
An entire city could easily have 10,000 goats or 10,000 sheep.
100,000 pigeons was achieved pretty early in human civilization also as we have evidence for dovecotes as old as 2,000 BCE if I recall correctly
The "little bar" you are resting the graver on is called a "steady rest".
In the future if you want to remake it you could maje a pedal lathe that works somewhat similarly to a spinning wheel
2:21 HEY! I havent seen you make your own baby powder yet. Is it a video that hasn't came out yet?
Love your videos can't wait till you do iron works
HTME making my first compiler in Assembler in my own opcode language
someone gave my mom a Japanese abacus that looked almost exactly like the one you made! (but it looks a lot better than the one you made, since actual professionals made it)
Honestly the lathe looks like garbage, but it's undeniably quite effective! Good job!
Try making some better lathe pieces on the lathe lol.
i would kinda like to see a parallel series, where he refines some of the tools he has under the assumption that he has to use them on a regular basis. kinda like he more or less seems to have switched from primitive casting to an electrical kiln and a proper wooden frame for the tools because his setup was barely able to cast a blade.
the saw for example: i get that its the one he made on his first experiment, but there is no way he can get to the higher techs with his barely functional tools when in reality craftsmen probably spent dozens if not hundreds of years refining the tools they had before inventing the next tool. so building the next generation kinda requires at least decent versions of the previous generation of tools.
i think without at least a pedal powered lathe and a proper (bronze) saw he will have a hard time building any of the newer stuff that requires round parts.
@@TheScarvig hopefully its not Turing into an entertainment channel than a how to. Its disappointing seeing him use modern furnaces when his primitive ones were barely effective. Still fun to watch
13:24 - looks like he’s making those powdered donuts they sell at the gas station
Look into pace beads. Used by military for counting steps. Just need cord and knots.
Love these videos
I love your Braun age tuning fork
I always thought growing up this was some kind of instrument, until my mom told me people did calculus with it and I was like "wow, those people must be morons" because I had an actual calculator lol
I've been learning how to use an abacus now that I've been trying to improve my math skills. I'm a highly visual and kinetic person, so I'm trying a similar medium.
I'm also making a conlang (constructed language), and have hit a wall with trying to figure out whether or not I should just rip off our current one.
Somehow, this video was not only entertaining, but helped two issues I've been rapidly drawing towards. I don't know how you did it, but this video gets three gold stars!
You will need an Antikythera Mechanism before you have a real computer, but that won't be for a few thousand years.
Good job with the time constraint. Good episode.
What if you used a bow drill type of system to drive it? Instead of a drill bit it would have a clamp that would help spin the work piece
Can't wait for you to get to steel, I'm getting sore just watching you use these bronze tools XD
@4:52. Autocaptions say:
no guys aunt points in tofu
Andy is getting very good at hewing wood.
It's over 9000 !
I don’t think you needed to go through the lathe route for this. I think the first abacus beads would have been things like knuckle bones, vertebral bones, slices of sticks with the pith wood removed to make donut shapes, that sort of thing.
Amazing videos👏👏
Damn, between the 3100 and this, my inbox is nothing but freaking computers today!