I Made A Water Computer And It Actually Works

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    Computers add numbers together using logic gates built out of transistors. But they don't have to be! They can be built out of greedy cup siphons instead! I used specially designed siphones to works as XOR and AND gates and chained them together so they add 4 digit binary numbers.
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  • @SteveMould
    @SteveMould  3 роки тому +6419

    It runs H₂OS
    The sponsor is Brilliant: The first 200 people to sign up at brilliant.org/stevemould will get 20% off an annual subscription.

    • @Briarbot2011
      @Briarbot2011 3 роки тому +28

      You're first

    • @scienceium5233
      @scienceium5233 3 роки тому +12

      Ha ha ha

    • @azivee8075
      @azivee8075 3 роки тому +200

      sulfanol?

    • @mmseng2
      @mmseng2 3 роки тому +55

      I think it's the video that's brilliant, not the sponsor.

    • @NandR
      @NandR 3 роки тому +8

      @@williambrooks5129 videos can be uploaded and not made public right away.

  • @noa8919
    @noa8919 3 роки тому +9269

    I love how an overflow error literally results in an overflow of water.

    • @Nick-lx4fo
      @Nick-lx4fo 3 роки тому +482

      You gotta flush the buffer of bits!

    • @bcn1gh7h4wk
      @bcn1gh7h4wk 3 роки тому +114

      exactly lol
      was thinking the same

    • @mikebell2112
      @mikebell2112 3 роки тому +165

      Got some current leakage going on, too.

    • @srtghfnbfg
      @srtghfnbfg 3 роки тому +112

      He's letting the carry litterally and figuratively 'overflow' into the next bit slot x'] just genius

    • @JorgetePanete
      @JorgetePanete 3 роки тому +9

      @@srtghfnbfg literally*

  • @theCodyReeder
    @theCodyReeder 3 роки тому +5538

    I think this would work a lot better with mercury; it’s not as sticky.

    • @SteveMould
      @SteveMould  3 роки тому +1939

      Well you would say that!

    • @tanmay______
      @tanmay______ 3 роки тому +340

      Time to explore another mine

    • @haydenallen888
      @haydenallen888 3 роки тому +140

      First time I’ve seen you in the wild cody

    • @vk3hau
      @vk3hau 3 роки тому +655

      and then you could place electric pads in the tanks and have mercury switch's turn lights on or off..

    • @SteveMould
      @SteveMould  3 роки тому +647

      @@vk3hau this is sounding really cool now

  • @NetEnlade
    @NetEnlade 2 роки тому +1306

    In middle school I forgot about finishing my science fair project, and seeing it was due on that day, I rushed to make an analog water computer to determine the weather. If you go outside and it is raining, then it is rain today. It was a very simple design.

  • @one_smol_duck
    @one_smol_duck 2 роки тому +392

    Oh, I've never actually understood how logic gates work with binary addition before. I "learned" it in school, but never understood. This is such a clear explanation. Thank you!

    • @grn1
      @grn1 2 роки тому +6

      ComputerPhile has done a few videos on binary logic that I thought were good (older videos so you might to scroll a bit). Some of their videos are hit or miss but there are certain presenters where you just know it's going to be good.

    • @user-iz7el6pc5m
      @user-iz7el6pc5m 3 місяці тому +1

      thanks to no one😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

    • @maytang9792
      @maytang9792 Місяць тому

      no pun intended?

    • @alivape
      @alivape Місяць тому

      That's the thing about computing. You gotta get an in on all the abstractions. Like wtf is a 0 and a 1 supposed to be. When you see it working on a scale you can see, you start to actually see how things work in a computer.

  • @FinkPloyd504
    @FinkPloyd504 3 роки тому +2873

    It's weird seeing my same minecraft Redstone circuits made from water and actually understanding what's going on

    • @General12th
      @General12th 3 роки тому +641

      Minecraft turned out to be a remarkably good way to teach this generation's youngsters the basics of structural engineering, computation, and logistics. I'm sure that's not what Mr. Persson meant to do, but it's great how the game developed in that way.

    • @bluesillybeard
      @bluesillybeard 3 роки тому +19

      same

    • @diarya5573
      @diarya5573 3 роки тому +107

      Right!? I'm remembering my initial redstone days building one of these

    • @JjMn1000
      @JjMn1000 3 роки тому +7

      Yes

    • @Krokodil986
      @Krokodil986 3 роки тому +58

      Yeeah let's go redstone engineers

  • @carykh
    @carykh 3 роки тому +4550

    Man, seeing the siphons finally pass over the threshold, and start dumping out their contents... is so satisfying

  • @Fritzafella
    @Fritzafella 2 роки тому +170

    A memory leak 😂
    I've watched a lot of your puns Matt bit I've never laughed this hard!

  • @PrebleStreetRecords
    @PrebleStreetRecords 2 роки тому +27

    This is so cool. My uncle, Bill Horton, did a ton of early research on fluidics and the fields use in computing, he would have loved to see this and how accessible it is to people.

  • @Xatzimi
    @Xatzimi 3 роки тому +860

    "I have a water computer"
    "Cool, do you mean water-cooled?"
    "No"

  • @a_commenter
    @a_commenter 3 роки тому +1811

    12:54 "We're gonna keep collabing until we get to a million"
    Quick! Nobody subscribe!

    • @SteveMould
      @SteveMould  3 роки тому +1022

      Plan backfires

    • @Krokodil986
      @Krokodil986 3 роки тому +14

      Lol

    • @eccentricOrange
      @eccentricOrange 3 роки тому +198

      @@SteveMould Plan successfully failed

    • @Gakulon
      @Gakulon 3 роки тому +26

      Nice profile pic!

    • @ogi22
      @ogi22 3 роки тому +21

      @@SteveMould I have always preffered a practical approach to science, that's why i preffered a physics in applications... but i really understand that math is a physics language... you will not get far when one will outrun the other. We need people on both sides of this teeter-totter. we have to swing both ways to keep going further:)

  • @VlogrBlogr
    @VlogrBlogr 2 роки тому +21

    13:45 this one scene just did more for me to understand computers and why they work, visually, than any other video on the internet. I get it now.

  • @Memes4daysz9
    @Memes4daysz9 Рік тому +2

    This is some really nice work! I actually used the logic gates from this to make my own computer and it ran flawlessly, I don’t know how to thank you enough for this. This also got me into addition calculations of computers as it’s mesmerizing to watch as something works with another thing to get a result

  • @MrStrez2
    @MrStrez2 3 роки тому +332

    "have you tried turning it off and on again?"
    "Yeah standby"
    *tips the computer upside down*

  • @AdityaSingh-mj6ei
    @AdityaSingh-mj6ei 3 роки тому +2667

    Gamers: I have liquid cooled pc
    Steve: I HAVE LIQUID PC

    • @magictime8959
      @magictime8959 3 роки тому +52

      liquid binary calculator

    • @ethaphu5589
      @ethaphu5589 2 роки тому +8

      Yeah, but Steve surely isint a gamer because there's no way he can play something with that lol

    • @youraunt
      @youraunt 2 роки тому +24

      @@ethaphu5589 but like
      people can play DOOM on a pregnancy test
      people can play Bad Apple using discord alone
      he can definitely play something on there, as long as it's better than apple products

    • @ethaphu5589
      @ethaphu5589 2 роки тому +12

      @@youraunt No he can't, you can't compare discord and pregnancy tests with a transistor based solely in water and gravity. I'm too lazy to state arguments but anyway: (still does it)
      It would be too hard to display it;
      It's been a long time since I have watched that video, but that's like, 6 transistors? 6 transistors that take up a huge amount of space and that needs up to 7 seconds for the water inside it to flow, Even if it was as big as a building, it would be impossible, just because something is said to be a computer it doesn't mean it can do complex tasks like playing Doom, it is exclusively demonstrative.

    • @ethaphu5589
      @ethaphu5589 2 роки тому +4

      @@youraunt Don't be naive

  • @twohorsesinamancostume7606
    @twohorsesinamancostume7606 2 роки тому +7

    I'm more of a practical learner so while I understood the purpose of logic gates and what they do in theory, I now have a better understanding of HOW they work. This was perfect for me, thank you.

  • @Kyvien09
    @Kyvien09 2 роки тому +3

    So I just recently found your videos, and this one interested me, because I'm technically in my second year of college, taking IT-security courses, I learned about binary and it got me thinking on how this would work if I wanted to use this to identify different complete octets. Thank you for this amazing video and reactivating my brain with what I have learned recently!

  • @daudmeer6852
    @daudmeer6852 3 роки тому +2477

    you should use hydrophobic coating inside of the containers and tubes so liquid dont stick inside of them and use distilled water or some other kind of fluid that can flow better

  • @samsibbens8164
    @samsibbens8164 3 роки тому +464

    Bringing a brand new meaning to "integer overflow"

    • @DrRiq
      @DrRiq 3 роки тому +17

      OR STACK OVERFLOW #AMIRITE

    • @giovannirizzi516
      @giovannirizzi516 3 роки тому +2

      came here to make the same joke

    • @44cheetah1
      @44cheetah1 3 роки тому

      Ok, but I was actually hoping one of them would make that joke

    • @ca-ke9493
      @ca-ke9493 3 роки тому

      But integer overflow is not really this concept tho, more like short circuits?

    • @Katt1n
      @Katt1n 3 роки тому +1

      @@ca-ke9493 huh? When your number is greater than 31, the water will literarily overflow from the left bucket. Can't get any more clear cut than that.

  • @pauls5745
    @pauls5745 Рік тому +2

    I've tried this a couple times and used hydrophobic coatings on glass to make outputs cleaner and the system overall more reliable. Steve always has good insights into design! that's why I love this channel and come back to older vids

  • @gemblersk2519
    @gemblersk2519 2 роки тому

    Dude, this can help learning computer processing so much in future
    I feel like some people don't realize how big affect this can have for people who will learn computer processing and stuff about computers in general. It can make learning so easier and helps understanding very well since you see example and have pepper explanation

  • @GM-os1bl
    @GM-os1bl 3 роки тому +2758

    The real question is: "Can it run Doom?"

    • @horstwalter9383
      @horstwalter9383 3 роки тому +76

      I was hoping I'm not the only one.

    • @justanothergrunt9053
      @justanothergrunt9053 3 роки тому +69

      **BFG Division** Slowly gets louder and louder.

    • @fregtz735
      @fregtz735 2 роки тому +168

      Well yes but no.
      So if you add a lot more of these maybe like maybe 500 of those water things you could probably like play minesweeper on it but you would need a screen and electricity but yes. You would just need a room about the size of your mom to house the water computer. (Sorry i just had to make a your mom joke but jokes aside it would work.)
      And it would be extremely slow, like 1 frame per day.

    • @pieppy6058
      @pieppy6058 2 роки тому +56

      @@fregtz735 well yes but no . This is just a very basic alu to make a programmable computer you would need memory and instruction set

    • @MattThompsonOnGoogle
      @MattThompsonOnGoogle 2 роки тому +30

      Yes, but it would be the slowest game ever.

  • @bouncydachon
    @bouncydachon 3 роки тому +637

    “What are your specs?”
    “I have a water computer”
    “Water cooling?”
    “Did i stutter?”

  • @Joevideostube
    @Joevideostube Рік тому

    What really amazed me is I read about fluidic computing in a printed article some 30 years ago, anyway thums up for nicely show the kind of hard work that normally takes to make a workable device from the inital idea.

  • @laurab994
    @laurab994 2 роки тому +1

    Beguiling! Love it. Love the explanation, love the practical demonstration. Super 😁

  • @thelonelyrogue3727
    @thelonelyrogue3727 3 роки тому +3055

    You've got a memory leak 😂

    • @joachimlarsen2k
      @joachimlarsen2k 3 роки тому +30

      Top comment in the making

    • @eeeeeek
      @eeeeeek 3 роки тому +23

      That's water damage

    • @DasGanon
      @DasGanon 3 роки тому +123

      I was waiting for an overflow error

    • @andricode
      @andricode 3 роки тому +48

      He might need to flush cache

    • @Spartan322
      @Spartan322 3 роки тому +14

      I read that with a melody of "You got a friend in me", works surprisingly well.

  • @TheLimeLines
    @TheLimeLines 3 роки тому +494

    That 'wet inside' on the thumbnail is amazing, there's some serious meme potential there

    • @pastek957
      @pastek957 3 роки тому +10

      It's a "sbubby", there are a lot of different ones

    • @TheLimeLines
      @TheLimeLines 3 роки тому +6

      @@pastek957 yeah, I'm on the sub Reddit, just wet inside has a nice ring, like the good old 'dead inside' sbubby

    • @aspopulvera9130
      @aspopulvera9130 3 роки тому +2

      I can agree to that 😂

    • @StuckOnAFireHydrant
      @StuckOnAFireHydrant 3 роки тому +2

      I'd buy a sticker with wet inside on it! For my water cooled computer that I (don't) own of course!

    • @kamuy_1337
      @kamuy_1337 3 роки тому +2

      Uwu

  • @renatoximenes4693
    @renatoximenes4693 2 роки тому +1

    A year ago I thought about making a water computer, but i couldn't develop a configuration for some logical ports. Seeing your design just blew my mind.

  • @RajeshKumar28sep
    @RajeshKumar28sep 2 роки тому +3

    A brilliant display of logic circuits at work. I plan to use this in my class :) Just a technical correction, at 6:50 the full adder will have an OR gate instead of a XOR on the left (in the end). In other words, the Cout would come out of an OR instead XOR.

  • @nitehawk86
    @nitehawk86 3 роки тому +230

    Memory leak: "I've never been so proud of such an easy joke." :)

  • @janneaalto3956
    @janneaalto3956 3 роки тому +476

    "you've got a memory leak"
    Laughed so hard at this that people came to see what the hell was going on XD

    • @Vasharan
      @Vasharan 3 роки тому +23

      Q: But can you get a stack overflow?
      A: Yes, but you'd have to run an injection attack.

    • @lyrimetacurl0
      @lyrimetacurl0 2 роки тому +1

      The second from the left only had 0.8 bits in it.

  • @gazbot9000
    @gazbot9000 2 роки тому

    several clips later.... you have earned my subscription! Reminds me of one of those non-electronic tutorial computers as described in Neil Stephensen's 'The Diamond Age', only for reals this time. Nice work!!

  • @erencan.s
    @erencan.s Рік тому +1

    It is really nice to see great channels' collaboration.

  • @CaptainMangles
    @CaptainMangles 3 роки тому +525

    "What does your water computer do?"
    "It computes water."
    "Oh."

  • @spooderman4008
    @spooderman4008 3 роки тому +231

    Finally, my future computer will no longer be water cooled but water itself.

    • @thepupilsofrob3287
      @thepupilsofrob3287 3 роки тому +5

      But what if it falls over then you have to scoop it back in

    • @Andrew-my1cp
      @Andrew-my1cp 3 роки тому +3

      Your profile pic is fucking terrifying

    • @baliart908
      @baliart908 3 роки тому +3

      Wtf is your profile pic man?!

    • @benholroyd5221
      @benholroyd5221 3 роки тому +1

      @@baliart908 what happens when the human centipede gets hungry?

    • @spooderman4008
      @spooderman4008 3 роки тому +3

      To answer those who are questioning my pfp:
      It's me! Sillys. :)

  • @strawberrylemonadelioness
    @strawberrylemonadelioness Рік тому +1

    Sweet! This looks really cool! I like seeing computers being made with other stuff, I think I've seen them being made with marble machines too.

  • @TheLonelyPeople314
    @TheLonelyPeople314 2 роки тому

    I am like stupidly happy I found this video. A while back I was making a calculator in Minecraft and it took me days and it never really worked. Then I found this and it has helped SO much. Keeping it in binary makes both the computation and display much easier. Also good video

  • @delphicdescant
    @delphicdescant 3 роки тому +51

    It's not only that one pun - all the CS terminology about buckets, overflow, leaks, etc. really feed into the *excellent* humor.

    • @alexpotts6520
      @alexpotts6520 3 роки тому

      It's almost like early computer scientists needed analogue metaphors to describe how computers worked...

  • @medokn99
    @medokn99 3 роки тому +375

    Wet® Inside

    • @bhutwheyttherismor86
      @bhutwheyttherismor86 3 роки тому +11

      Pshhh, after watching this video... Same.

    • @arnob1711
      @arnob1711 3 роки тому +9

      Your pfp goes so well with this

    • @DrRiq
      @DrRiq 3 роки тому +15

      [INSERT JOKE ABOUT HARD DISK]

    • @f-seal7193
      @f-seal7193 3 роки тому +2

      @@bhutwheyttherismor86 you alright mate? Cuz you sound so sus

    • @brgmember
      @brgmember 3 роки тому +1

      @@f-seal7193 sussy🤣🤣😂🤣😂😂😂😂🤣🤣😂🤣😂😂😂

  • @halonothing1
    @halonothing1 2 роки тому +1

    This is really cool. One thing I've always wanted to see somebody do is make an actual circuit that uses the hydrological equivalents to passive electrical components like textbooks always use to familiarize you with them. That is, use a narrow section of pipe or tubing in place of a resistor, use a flexible diaphragm that flexes back or forth as a capacitor. And use a weighted water wheel or turbine as an inductor. I've always wanted to see somebody try making something like an RLC circuit that oscillates at a specific frequency when energy is added in the form of voltage or current. OR in the case of the water circuit, by water pressure or flow. Which are the equivalents of voltage and current, respectively.

  • @Klexology
    @Klexology 2 роки тому

    I've watched many videos on computers but I've never understood them until now. Thank you Steve!

  • @samykamkar
    @samykamkar 3 роки тому +2370

    All of this boolean logic really makes me want to pee.

    • @gormintaunty7133
      @gormintaunty7133 3 роки тому +20

      but most of all, samy is my hero

    • @itsmerg5273
      @itsmerg5273 3 роки тому +6

      but most of all, samy is my hero(really i mean it)

    • @VivekYadav-ds8oz
      @VivekYadav-ds8oz 3 роки тому +6

      Hey you finally remembered your channel's password! Seriously though when are you gonna resume making videos?

    • @cringe511
      @cringe511 3 роки тому +2

      holy shit i wasn’t expecting you here

    • @MohamedAnsari_H
      @MohamedAnsari_H 3 роки тому

      Yay Samy!!!

  • @AllDayBikes
    @AllDayBikes 3 роки тому +608

    0:04 That is the look of a man who spent weeks building a water computer

    • @nou4898
      @nou4898 3 роки тому +47

      and it has water cooling too

    • @fadedc
      @fadedc 3 роки тому +9

      @@nou4898 built in

    • @jirifiala5090
      @jirifiala5090 3 роки тому +1

      🤣

  • @ZhePorgi03141
    @ZhePorgi03141 Місяць тому

    I’m pretty excited in this Steve mould video and seeing water channels and gravity, simple stuff used to make functional logic gates that can be used and combined like circuits and that take the flow energy and transform it into light or other things to show bits being either 1 or 0 (on / off states)

  • @MrDarviel
    @MrDarviel 6 місяців тому +6

    Btw. I think there is a way to turn this into a digital number once again: Once all individual "buckets" have settled, you could put the fluid from each bucket onto a lever scale and put them at the corresponding distance to the center such that their pull on the lever corresponds to their number. So meaning: 8 _ _ _ 4 _ 2 1 | _ _ _ "measure" (maybe with a spring and a ruler). The number 8 corresponds to the fluid in the bucket which has the bit for 8 for example.

    • @Buphido
      @Buphido 4 місяці тому

      Great idea! Now we only need a way to do the opposite.

  • @SaHaRaSquad
    @SaHaRaSquad 3 роки тому +381

    Fun fact: Someone actually built a fully functional computer in Dwarf Fortress using the game's water simulation and thousands of crafted parts.

    • @jordanl.8509
      @jordanl.8509 3 роки тому +38

      Dear God...
      RIP that dude's free time.

    • @SaHaRaSquad
      @SaHaRaSquad 3 роки тому +85

      @@jordanl.8509 What's even crazier are the people pushing Factorio to its limits. Someone literally built an in-game pixel-based "display" using a ridiculous number of trains and then created a Doom-like 3D engine just using Factorio's ingame components.
      I'm sure those people can build quantum computers using a box of wooden sticks.

    • @JamesBideaux
      @JamesBideaux 3 роки тому +34

      @@SaHaRaSquad someone also used conways game of life which is apparently turing complete to "play" tetris after building a virtual tetris machine.

    • @Pk2723
      @Pk2723 3 роки тому +26

      Both the creator of Dwarf Fortress and its players are insane and I love em for it.

    • @criticalgems2605
      @criticalgems2605 3 роки тому

      Link?

  • @cuckoophendula8211
    @cuckoophendula8211 3 роки тому +386

    Whoa, any fiction authors that like to incorporate "hydraulic computers" into their steampunk inspired story line, here's something for ya.

    • @Roxor128
      @Roxor128 3 роки тому +23

      Terry Pratchett did in one of his Discworld stories (Making Money). Probably based on the economic analogue computer mentioned in the video, given its role in the story.

    • @jerrygrimes8813
      @jerrygrimes8813 3 роки тому +16

      Ever since my Mechanical Engineering degree, I've joked that I wanted to invent the steam lightbulb and the hydraulic TV to put the EEs out of business!

    • @nolan412
      @nolan412 3 роки тому +3

      Who needs a pump?

    • @sergeigarbar1948
      @sergeigarbar1948 3 роки тому +6

      Its not fiction. We made fluidic logical components years ago. Now with 3d prineterss should be happy tine. But youtube continues to censir my message about it.....

    • @sergeigarbar1948
      @sergeigarbar1948 3 роки тому +3

      @Electro_blob 2 Idont know. Probably because i mentioned it was produced in USSR.

  • @zircon256ua
    @zircon256ua 5 місяців тому

    I love this content! I love water physics, angles, polygons, and everything in between!

  • @jamesburke2759
    @jamesburke2759 Рік тому

    This is the best and easiest explanation of how a pc works. This should be the first lesson of computer engineering. if I had this easy to follow visual guide when i was 14 it would have saved me years of questions.

  • @gillo100
    @gillo100 3 роки тому +423

    Need to get Cody and his supply of Mercury. Won't wet the glass so no failures from trapped water

    • @StraightOuttaJarhois
      @StraightOuttaJarhois 3 роки тому +54

      I wonder if one of those hydrophobic sprays would do the trick too.

    • @HerbaMachina
      @HerbaMachina 3 роки тому +31

      @@StraightOuttaJarhois that would absolutely improve the performance.

    • @bharris591
      @bharris591 3 роки тому +9

      @@StraightOuttaJarhois better get Rhett and Link on that part. Greatest crossover in history.

    • @ksp-crafter5907
      @ksp-crafter5907 3 роки тому +32

      A Mercury Computer 😲 That would be soo cool!
      You could also couple this with an electric switch system because of the conductivity of mercury.

    • @sandipsing2657
      @sandipsing2657 3 роки тому +2

      👍

  • @CrazyHorse151
    @CrazyHorse151 3 роки тому +417

    9:55
    As a computer scientist, I highly appreciate this series of jokes.

    • @ogi22
      @ogi22 3 роки тому +5

      Jokes? OK i can get it as a joke, but that's a brilliant logic interpretation in physical world.If you get this, you will have no problems understanding logial gates in the future:)

    • @khodis2002
      @khodis2002 3 роки тому +19

      @@ogi22 but that's not how memory leaks physically work :)

    • @blueeyesdarkmagician5386
      @blueeyesdarkmagician5386 3 роки тому +2

      @@ogi22 :)

    • @spandexgoblin
      @spandexgoblin 3 роки тому +11

      @@khodis2002 it is now

    • @CrazyHorse151
      @CrazyHorse151 3 роки тому +2

      @@ogi22 Regarding the memory leak one, that's maybe similar-ish but not really a real-world equivalent. Memory leaks happen when a subsystem doesn't inform the OS that some part of the memory is free to be used again. So subsystem has nothing to do with the memory, OS still thinks it is being used.

  • @1Chitus
    @1Chitus Рік тому +2

    As a digital designer of microchips I'd like to say your introduction to adders is one of the best I've seen so far; my high school teacher sucked on the basics like this but luckily I still ended up in IC design :)

  • @AK-vk8uj
    @AK-vk8uj Рік тому

    The effort you put to your videos is unbelievable. Thank you for the dedication 👍👍

  • @lewzero
    @lewzero 3 роки тому +74

    This seriously just made me understand the part of computers that I could never quite grasp. 35 years of not understanding _why_ the gate system that computers use works, all answered in sixteen and a half minutes. And now that I understand, I can hardly believe I didn't before.
    I honestly feel that my life is about to get way easier, thank you for that

    • @mosesracal6758
      @mosesracal6758 3 роки тому +5

      I even just understood the concept of 1 and 0 bits, very awesome way of connecting the digital to the physical world

    • @emissarygw2264
      @emissarygw2264 3 роки тому +4

      Yeah it's why I took a bunch of computer architecture classes and stuff in college. I really wanted to understand how things work all the way down. It's really fascinating.

    • @robmarrin6720
      @robmarrin6720 3 роки тому

      Spot on this is exactly how you are tau in college, water explains the flow of current through faucets,, the water is there potentially but until you draw it, flow cannot occur same with electricity and logic gate's, in this case it shows both the flow of electrons and the logical outcomes 👍

  • @zack1stplayer
    @zack1stplayer 3 роки тому +3051

    This is taking Liquid Cooled™ to a whole new level

    • @gaia9020
      @gaia9020 3 роки тому +48

      It is only the next logical step

    • @carius989
      @carius989 3 роки тому +26

      Liquid driven

    • @DTG4844
      @DTG4844 2 роки тому +14

      The trademark is giving me ominous vibes

    • @gotchabiqch8942
      @gotchabiqch8942 2 роки тому +7

      @@DTG4844 the trademark was the cherry on top wym®

    • @chargemankent
      @chargemankent 2 роки тому +9

      Well... It's not Liquid Cooling... It's Liquid Core!

  • @tomasbernardo5972
    @tomasbernardo5972 Рік тому

    Great way to explain the logic.
    Just a note, in the full adder, the xor that doesn't belong to any of the half adders can be replaced with an or gate, in a real life situation you would probably want to have a circuit that is as simple as it needs to be. I get that using the syphons it's easier that way tho

  • @fktx3507
    @fktx3507 2 роки тому +1

    That's amazing. Could you illustrate with this setup how all these zeros and ones end up showing a picture or a video on a screen?

  • @NicosLeben
    @NicosLeben 3 роки тому +152

    Instead of splitting the lines to make a "10ml" out of a "20ml" you could use a reservoir which can hold 10ml and just use the overrun. That way it can not split unevenly accidentally.

    • @AlxM96
      @AlxM96 3 роки тому +3

      I was thinking the exact same thing! Make it go through a tube on the side of the tank raised by the exact amount and you're good without spills

    • @JohnDlugosz
      @JohnDlugosz 3 роки тому +3

      @@AlxM96 Isaac Newton's water clock worked this way.

  • @solaokusanya955
    @solaokusanya955 Рік тому

    I love you mehn!
    For the first time, just this singular video gave me an intuitive eureka feeling!..

  • @anmolgarg6873
    @anmolgarg6873 Рік тому

    Your videos are really amazing, i learn the concepts very easily

  • @alphtheor.879
    @alphtheor.879 3 роки тому +218

    This could turn into a crazy puzzle in a game in some ancient temple dedicated to some advanced people to open a door.

    • @Lanyovan
      @Lanyovan 3 роки тому +15

      Informaticus (2003) had stuff like this. It's from a series of german educational point&click adventures, each focused on a different natural science. In Informaticus you were part of an archeological team who uncovers a lost civilization with knowledge on Logic/Computer Science. While I don't remember a water-powered computer, there was one puzzle that used crystal skulls as optic logic gates. Another puzzle had you program a robot to traverse a 2D labyrinth and there was also Conway's Game Of Life in it.

    • @randomchie4933
      @randomchie4933 3 роки тому +4

      crystal maze? 😁

    • @zenmode3125
      @zenmode3125 3 роки тому +5

      Fuck it, DnD dungeon puzzle time

    • @Jam._.
      @Jam._. 3 роки тому

      @@zenmode3125 YEEAAHHH

    • @braedonlackovic1776
      @braedonlackovic1776 3 роки тому +1

      Me with my 1 semester of computer engineering class knowledge

  • @HarnaiDigital
    @HarnaiDigital 3 роки тому +321

    "He puts a lot of efforts to show that 9+5= 8+4+2" That killed me.😂

    • @TomCRitucci
      @TomCRitucci 3 роки тому +3

      Me too hahaha My $0.30 keychain calculator can do better than that

    • @benoliver5593
      @benoliver5593 3 роки тому +3

      Just remember a lot of public school teachers have issues trying to explain a concept like this

    • @HarnaiDigital
      @HarnaiDigital 3 роки тому +1

      @@benoliver5593 yep. Schools, colleges and Universities sucks. Books are super boring. Experiments are Cool and Informative.

    • @prumchhangsreng979
      @prumchhangsreng979 3 роки тому +2

      @@HarnaiDigital u are missing the point. A decent school always teach with experiment, but even with experiment, it's actually hard to explain this concept.

    • @HarnaiDigital
      @HarnaiDigital 3 роки тому +1

      @@prumchhangsreng979 yes. You have a perfect point. Let me tell you something. There are different modes of education. Speaking, Books, Experiments, pdfs and videos. But most beautiful and easy one is video. It helps to share much more knowledge with in matter of minutes if done right. Maybe you can check my videos on that once and leave your Thoughts. The place where I'm living, we don't do experiments. Just freaking study and test. I hate this a lot.

  • @pavelmaca9576
    @pavelmaca9576 Рік тому

    Great job! Simple and wonderful. Now everone can clearly understand how a PC works!!!

  • @davidunkown1925
    @davidunkown1925 2 роки тому +2

    It'd be nice to see a self filling / refilling calculator where the "answer" repopulated input one and the water fill was controlled by valve "button" inputs. Also, thanks for teaching me the concept behind binary addition calculation, never took in school

  • @hedgehog3180
    @hedgehog3180 3 роки тому +163

    It's always a sign of a well working computer when you're cheering on it to get the correct answer.

    • @electronash
      @electronash 3 роки тому +6

      I used to do that on my Celeron. lol

    • @Roxor128
      @Roxor128 3 роки тому +1

      @@electronash Would have thought that would be a 1994 Pentium.

  • @phantomsoul8937
    @phantomsoul8937 2 роки тому

    I know this video is "old" by now but you guys synergize so well, its been quite fun.

  • @teindanagogo736
    @teindanagogo736 Рік тому

    Brilliant. I love the approach. The first attempt would have worked but from my POV it seemed a syringe was not properly filled.

  • @storminmormin14
    @storminmormin14 3 роки тому +128

    Oh my gosh. I saw the photo you posted and was like “huh that looks like a logic gate of some kind.”

    • @harry.tallbelt6707
      @harry.tallbelt6707 3 роки тому

      Same here :D

    • @Krokodil986
      @Krokodil986 3 роки тому +3

      I mean if it's a computer how else can you manipulate bits

    • @DreadKyller
      @DreadKyller 3 роки тому

      @@Krokodil986 They meant before the video came out, some UA-camrs post teaser images on sites like Twitter, so without context that it's a water computer, just seeing the picture they thought it looked like logic gates. Obviously with the context of knowing that it's a water computer it becomes obvious that they are.

    • @Krokodil986
      @Krokodil986 3 роки тому

      @@DreadKyller oh right, I thought he meant the thumbnail of the video rather than the photo from before 😂

  • @jorggamingcr409
    @jorggamingcr409 3 роки тому +8

    2:33 and that is what in electronics we call as timing and propagation issues. Electrical signals also suffer from timing or other problems like jutter and clock skew among others. Lenght of wires, crosstalk, etc.

  • @claudiamund-cooper9388
    @claudiamund-cooper9388 Рік тому

    Thank you sooo mich. I teach English for scientists, engineeris and technicians, so this video of yours fits in nicely. And your English is very nice to listen to as well.

  • @diegomariapagnoni9202
    @diegomariapagnoni9202 Рік тому

    AMAZING!
    Thanks, truly beautiful!

  • @fredrum3966
    @fredrum3966 3 роки тому +64

    The irony in the poster behind Matt that says "Education works best when all the parts are working" while showing three interlocking gears, I guess it truly does represent the education system.

    • @Agent24Electronics
      @Agent24Electronics 3 роки тому +9

      I remember seeing the same poster in high school and making the same joke. Guess nothing's changed...

    • @Crlarl
      @Crlarl 3 роки тому +17

      That was featured in Matt's book, Humble Pi.

    • @anderpanders6210
      @anderpanders6210 3 роки тому +10

      Probably the irony isn't lost on Matt either

    • @DreadKyller
      @DreadKyller 3 роки тому +6

      @@anderpanders6210 Oh no, it definitely isn't, in his book "Humble Pi" he wrote a section talking about that 3-gear diagram.

    • @HelloKittyFanMan.
      @HelloKittyFanMan. 3 роки тому

      Oh, I KNOW! This was SO distracting! It's a functional stand-still!

  • @fuzzydark1395
    @fuzzydark1395 3 роки тому +97

    Bruh that "Wet Inside" name was on point

  • @Sukshula
    @Sukshula 18 днів тому

    your ability to clarify complex subjects is unparalleled!

  • @ryant2568
    @ryant2568 2 роки тому +1

    I love these different types of computers. I saw a guy once built a fully working 8-bit computer in minecraft.

  • @astrayan88
    @astrayan88 3 роки тому +94

    Charles Babbage would be proud of this I reckon. If Babbage's computers have a steampunk vibe then this must be aquapunk.

  • @nicklacerte7134
    @nicklacerte7134 3 роки тому +109

    "Someone must be slowing the system down mining for bitcoin" I almost lost my food on that one with an audible laugh

  • @davidahlers4324
    @davidahlers4324 2 роки тому

    You Really Challenge my mind with your projects 🙂! Which is a very good thing 😁👍

  • @gamingon4655
    @gamingon4655 2 роки тому

    Brilliant. Always try to make one.
    please make a video for memory arrangement.

  • @m.degroot6837
    @m.degroot6837 3 роки тому +338

    "Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can be used to build a computer. Be water, my friend."
    -Bruce Lee

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 роки тому +23

      What I'm hearing is someone needs to make logic gates based on kung fu moves.

    • @UCmDBecUtbSafffpMEN3iscA
      @UCmDBecUtbSafffpMEN3iscA 3 роки тому +1

      @cukkoo cukkoo Lmao

    • @anduro7448
      @anduro7448 3 роки тому +3

      @@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 how tf does that even work

    • @Owenbrown900
      @Owenbrown900 3 роки тому +1

      Steve lee

    • @anatine_banana_69
      @anatine_banana_69 3 роки тому

      @@anduro7448 maybe a roundhouse kick if it's 1 AND 1 and a half kick if it's 0 AND 1 or something like that

  • @Minemac2
    @Minemac2 3 роки тому +62

    I hope they don't stop doing videos together once they get to 1 million. They work well together

    • @immko
      @immko 3 роки тому

      Dont worry, they are friends and do stand up together too.

  • @CTGDesigner
    @CTGDesigner Рік тому

    The memory leak comment is gold 😆 ...and now, I'm a new subscriber to Matt Parker 👍 Really cool history regarding the analogue computer to model the computer. Has no idea!

  • @fanman421
    @fanman421 2 роки тому

    Very cool. In the 1960’s our neighbor was a representative for ARO air products. He had a demonstration board full of little modules that operated on air, with no electrical power whatsoever with the exception of the small air compressor on the floor under the table. There were AND gates, OR gates, NAND gates, FLIP FLOPS, and on and on.... Some were analog, like one that would control air flow based on control pressure with the flow ‘measured’ by a differential pressure across a restricted passage. Pretty cool stuff to a Jr high student. 😉

  • @jebwatson
    @jebwatson 3 роки тому +65

    As a holder of a computer science degree and a software professional, this is damn fascinating. Thank you!
    "I've always wondered what the volume of a 1 is" - Priceless commentary

    • @dannygjk
      @dannygjk 3 роки тому

      Have you done any assembly language programming?

    • @jebwatson
      @jebwatson 3 роки тому

      @@dannygjk A fair bit in college, but it's been a few years. x86 and some ARM.

  • @baze3541
    @baze3541 3 роки тому +57

    Someone: I've got a 800W gold+ power supply, what do you have?
    Steve: GRAVITY

  • @jijunabu9440
    @jijunabu9440 5 місяців тому

    Brilliant, smart idea. It will work and easy to understand.

  • @christopherpardell4418
    @christopherpardell4418 Рік тому

    You can do an ancillary video about fluidics. The military actually built control systems with complex logic gates that operated in line with hydraulic fluid to perform ratio, multiplication and division operations that resulted in dynamic control surfaces that adjusted force output based upon input parameters like airspeed, inertial forces and pilot input. These were early attempts at making logic based control systems that would be immune to EMP in nuclear war. What they looked like was tall stacks of thin steel plates with channels cut in them, separated by gaskets, where the inputs and outputs where holes passing into adjacent plates on one side or the other. The whole thing was filled with hydraulic fluid at pressure, and the flow thru the various inputs controlled by valves and regulators, with the flow either resulting in greater or lesser hydraulic flow to the control surfaces.

  • @paul2tr
    @paul2tr 3 роки тому +31

    6:53 The result should be 0 and the carry 1, you did the opposite.
    Result: (1 xor 0) xor 1 = 1 xor 1 = 0
    Carry: (1 & 0) xor ( (1 xor 0) & 1) = 0 xor ( 1 & 1) = 0 xor 1 = 1
    We can also do the addition in binary:
    1 + 0 + 1 = 10 => result 0, carry 1.

    • @jonhtte
      @jonhtte 3 роки тому +10

      Thanks, I have been searching for this comment

    • @IamFluffY90
      @IamFluffY90 3 роки тому +8

      I noticed the same thing. I just wanted to follow the logic out of curiosity and was surprised when I got the opposite outputs. Turns out, the logic gates were formed correctly and the arithmetic was wrong 😂

    • @joshuawilliams4695
      @joshuawilliams4695 3 роки тому +3

      Was just going to say the same lol

    • @user-gr1np8rm6b
      @user-gr1np8rm6b 3 роки тому +3

      Plot twist: he made the mistake on purpose to test the viewers

    • @LivKASS
      @LivKASS 3 роки тому

      @Felix Jove
      Maybe he did. He did say he wasn’t gonna explain it and to feel free to pause of we want to ponder it

  • @hayd7371
    @hayd7371 3 роки тому +36

    "I think someone's using this to mine bitcoin and it's slowing everything down"
    Brilliant.

  • @flatikk
    @flatikk 10 місяців тому +1

    While watching your video I actually came up with an idea of as to how to make a classic transistor using only water.
    Perhaps you could take a normal tube with a propeller in the middle which is supposed to act as a pump. The water from the first input comes directly into the center of the propeller, meaning that it won't be able to spin it much, but a second current of water comes tangent to another propeller that is coaxial with this one, meaning that both inputs have to have water flowing through them to have water at the output.

  • @DarthVella
    @DarthVella Рік тому +1

    I had a thought with the "slow leak" XOR design - if you could close and open the outputs, you could hook each of them up to the same mechanism that you toggle at regular intervals, and it would (kind of) simulate a CPU clock!

  • @anxietyprimev6983
    @anxietyprimev6983 3 роки тому +72

    So, I did the math, and it turns out it would take about 20,048,773 of these water-powered logic gates to be able to run Doom. Better start firing up that 3D printer. How you'd get that to show up on a screen is beyond me, but I'm sure you could figure it out. Have fun!😊

    • @adrianbundy3249
      @adrianbundy3249 3 роки тому +11

      I hope you love playing doom on 0.5 FPS. I mean, that would be relying on water drip speed :)

    • @Roxor128
      @Roxor128 3 роки тому +16

      @@adrianbundy3249 Oh, it'd be much, _much_ worse than that. If one instruction takes 20 seconds, and we assume the kind of machine Doom was written for needed 15MIPS to run the game, then one second of gameplay would take 300 million seconds, or about _ten years_ to calculate on this thing.

    • @Ranstone
      @Ranstone 3 роки тому +10

      @@Roxor128
      At the original Doom's intended 35FPS, that's 104 days per frame. XD

    • @kostyr13
      @kostyr13 3 роки тому +4

      Maybe something less computationally overwhelming like Tic-Tac-Toe or Tetris could be achievable (maybe).
      In tetris, it could be helpful that both water and the tetrinimos want to fall down.
      Who know? Fill the gates with more saturated color and that can be out display!!!!

    • @unicornhuntercg
      @unicornhuntercg 3 роки тому +2

      @@adrianbundy3249 0.5 FPS on this !!? Bro you're dreaming, I'd estimate days per frame.

  • @cmel7841
    @cmel7841 3 роки тому +101

    For those of us that were in high school in the 80s this brought back a lot of memories. I am a software engineer now and it all started with something like this.

  • @Shadobanned4life
    @Shadobanned4life Рік тому

    This is an astonishing,practical look at binary logic. Thanks for a Class A1 video !

  • @XeroBuster
    @XeroBuster 2 роки тому

    The splitter portion of the tubing could be simplified as another container without a syphon that would overflow when a value of 2 was added due to its max capacity it can keep a hold of being a value of 1 letting the excess value of 1 pass thru as it subtracts the cap amount it can keep a hold of maybe having a valve to reset the the exclusionary aspect of the described container for the next test kind of a clear function if you will

  • @andrewberryman4957
    @andrewberryman4957 3 роки тому +246

    Bottom of the email: "You were right about tau and I was wrong." Well done, Steve.

    • @umartinko
      @umartinko 3 роки тому +15

      And it even appears on 3:14 timestamp. :)

    • @andrewberryman4957
      @andrewberryman4957 3 роки тому +1

      @@umartinko beautiful

    • @motttta
      @motttta 3 роки тому +1

      What is Tau?

    • @andrewberryman4957
      @andrewberryman4957 3 роки тому +9

      @@motttta ​ You're in for a treat. Tau is another Greek letter that in this context represents a value that is twice the value of pi. There is a long-standing "feud" between Steve and Matt (or Matt and Steve, depending on your allegiance) as to which is the better mathematical constant. Numberphile did a couple of videos: the first with Professor Moriarty, ua-cam.com/video/83ofi_L6eAo/v-deo.html, followed shortly by Steve and Matt, ua-cam.com/video/ZPv1UV0rD8U/v-deo.html

    • @umartinko
      @umartinko 3 роки тому +1

      @@andrewberryman4957 ​@Motta Not to forget ViHart, who even has a playlist dedicated to Pi and Anti-Pi videos ;) ua-cam.com/play/PL5F03A9D6D278C5D9.html

  • @locky_y233
    @locky_y233 3 роки тому +223

    This reminds me trying to made a calculator in Minecraft during middle school! Absolutely enjoying it!

  • @Ruiluth
    @Ruiluth 2 роки тому

    That was the best explanation of full vs half adders I've ever seen

  • @russellreisinger4541
    @russellreisinger4541 Рік тому

    Thank you. Quite honestly, this video is the highlight of my entire week.

  • @roderik1990
    @roderik1990 3 роки тому +44

    I laughed way too hard at the "memory leak" joke.