Thanks, everyone, for the humorous comments. I know it's been a long time since I've posted. Here's the update on this project: In 2018, I put together plans for a full 12-bit computer based on the old PDP-8 architecture, capable of running VERY simple programs (with a maximum of 64 instructions) like finding the Nth number in a Fibonacci series. I also built prototype parts for the new mechanical logic required to make it all work. The goal would be to educate folks about how computers work in a fun, interactive way-and to push folks to think BIG (pun intended). Here's the roadblock: the machine would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, require several people to help build it and maintain it, and require a truly MASSIVE space (think warehouse, not a basement). It'll be a heavy lift to get to that point. I'm still weighing options, but a good start is that K'nex has said they will be able to support the logistics of providing the 15,000 motors required. In the meantime, if you're interested in seeing videos explaining these plans, including demos of the prototype components and how the logic works, give me a thumbs up, and I'll see if I can find the time to make that happen.
Dan Ehrman DO IT JUST DO IT DON'T LET YOUR DREAMS BE DREAMS YESTERDAY YOU SAID TOMORROW SO JUST DO IT MAKE YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE JUST DO IT SOME PEOPLE DREAM OF SUCCESS WHILE YOU'RE GONNA WAKE UP AND WORK HARD AT IT NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE YOU SHOULD GET TO THE POINT WHERE ANYONE ELSE WOULD QUIT AND YOU'RE NOT GOING TO STOP THERE NO, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? DO IT JUST DO IT YES YOU CAN JUST DO IT IF YOU'RE TIRED OF STARTING OVER STOP GIVING UP
Dan Ehrman people would probably find some kind of piping looking thing with lights to be more interesting than k’nex Like take some old CPU and expand each wire out and add LEDs
@@jvolstad OMG. I was at work the other day and walked in from an errand to the office computer and the BSoD. My heart sank. I spent the next 7 hours rebuilding the office computer software profile from scratch. Lost a day's worth of productivity over it. First time I have seen that in Windows 10.
I've always found these machines fascinating to watch. While I don't understand a dang thing, this is super impressive. The slowest and loudest way possible to figure out 1-1, but still impressive.
-Michael Remington it works by adding 0 and 1 like this -Kirby gamez its easily done with logic gates, its very interesting, and not and or gates make up all computers Not- 0=1 1=0 And-1,1=1 1,0=0 0,0=0 Or-1,1=1 1,0=1 0,0,=0 Combining makes all possible logic gate combinations
Nah the slowest way to figure out 1 - 1 is to spend a few billion years evolving biological life to the point where an organism can perform simple abstractions.
If you studied logic circuits it really is very simple, it's just a matter of haveing the time to assemble the entire thing. A full adder is not that complicated at all. A full modern computer is.
@@larsvanzutphen9095 i'm not being a smartass, you can literally learn how a full adder works by messing a bit with readstone minecraft and watching a damn tutorial
Dan, I watched your video maybe 9 or 10 years ago... I was amazed by your computer and was determined to know how it all worked. Now I’m studying as an electrical engineer at the top of my class. And I finally completely understand how computers are built. Thank you for your demonstration.
Read the description. "NOTE: This project is now on indefinite hold as I no longer have the funding to complete it. I appreciate all the wonderful support my viewers have provided; hopefully some day we can show K'Nex how much people care about this effort and regain their support to build the first full K'NEX computer."
AreoTale That May not always be true. There’s an inattentive type of ADD that possibly presents itself as disheveled, shy, careless, etc. I would say Adderall/stimulants make people with ADD normal and functional.
AreoTale I’ve been diagnosed with ADD inattentive so maybe that’s why my comment doesn’t make sense to you. Adderall gives me energy and makes me focus. Doesn’t make me hyper.
This spins my mind, but I'm so fascinated by it that I keep coming back for more. Computers and cars are really the only things I can research for hours on end and not get bored within 5 minutes.
You can monetize a video shorter than 10 minutes. Haha. He just won't be able to put 3 ads on it. Video length determines the amount of ads you put on a video not if you will be able to have ads at all.
Teacher: You may use calculators. Dan: May I get mine from my locker? Teacher: Okay. *Drops down 6 foot tall K'NEX Computer.* Teacher: What is this! Dan: It's my calculator. *Flips on surge suppressor causing the sound of 100's of gears grinding. Dan enters 2-1* 2 minutes later. Computer: 1 Success Edit. 400 likes, wow.
How about you buy out your entire neighbourhood after you win the lottery, then put about 500,000 of these in the town, and combine them all then install Windows XP on it
well, I don't know if he knows or not, but he's got like almost 4000 subscribers now. I don't know if it would've gotten actually popular back then like it did now.
Elton Lee it can only run Windows Vista unfortunately. We're still waiting for the test models to update and fine tune compatibility for more advanced software
i can admire his skill and all but a lego computer int going to save you in an apocalypse situation. i can think of at least 10 youtubers i'd rather have by my side. all Archers and swordsmen. because arrows and blades kill. lego computers do not.
I'm a computer engineer, and I have no idea either. He uses terms like "relay" and "transistor" to describe things that are nothing like relays or transistors.
@@BrightBlueJim I think that rotation represents a logic 1, while no rotation represents a logic zero. A relay can complete or interrupt a gear train. I'm not sure how a relay differs from a transistor though.
"This project is very important to me as it is part of a long-term personal goal to create a macroscopic realization of some of the intricacies that comprise a modern computer." very cool, stuff like this inspires more people to start programming
Win10 is a marginal improvement over Win8.1, which itself is a marginal improvement over Win8. Win10 is mostly malware built on top of a barely adequate OS. It remains that Win8 was an abomination, which I think makes OP right.
Dan's Parents: "Well Dear, even though the doctors are concerned, at least it keeps him off the streets..." Dude, being a digital designer (and having built these circuits using both transistors and TTL-logic gates) my hat is totally off to you! Mr. Turing would be impressed. You are indeed one of those UA-cam gems. More power to ya! #SUB!
Oh man, I can only imagine how big of a fucking machine he'd have to build using these in order to get something similar to a graphics card. (imagine one world trade center, like...that big, and that's probably an understatement)
ZirrasElite Actually, let's work that out. Let's say for the sake of argument, a typical transistor or the smallest element in a modern cpu is around 20nm (this year it should be half that for the smallest process node size, again simplification). We can roughly assume from the scale of the video given that a single gate made out of k'nex in this machine is roughly 25cm. Again, a bit of simplification here is needed because in most cases the actual transistor isn't as "boxy" as shown here, it's more or less "flat". So by simple division, 2.5 m x10^-2 / 2.0 x 10^-8 m is, again roughly, 1,275,000 times bigger in actual size. Now, if we're talking graphics cards, a typical modern graphics cards usually has _billions_ of these types of elements. So uh, yeah, roughly multiply that by the scale factor of 1.2 million and well, you got your dimensions. It's literally a million times bigger XD
BOB.org we are also missing the speed, while it may be able to do complex calculations at that size even if you beefed the crap out of those motors electricity travels at something like 50 to 99 percent the speed of light. So we are talking about something that moves at way less than 1 percent the speed of light. Interesting as it is it would take a day for a single calculation. Idk im not an engineer what do i know
That doesn't mean it's going to be any more useful than one that has ceased to function. Besides, an EMP won't do much damage to many older computers anyways - with no magnetic media, there's nothing to erase.
I'm equal parts impressed and surprised by the apparent complexity of this design... A full adder consists of only 5 logic gates, and from things I determined earlier you can construct that from roughly 10 transistors... Your machine is exceptionally large for that. Perhaps it HAS to be, but it still surprises me that it would need to be that large, even considering what it's made of...
if I had the plans for this as a kid I would have spent all the hours to construct it and been the happiest one ever. Seriously, I hated it when constructing those rollercoasters only took a day. This has so much potential to teach kids.
Zach Weibel More like thousands. This is a full adder, but your "billions" number is an actual transistor count. There's no good way of knowing how many full adders Company X has put on their chip, but thousands wouldn't be an unreasonable guess. (Just think: any 64-bit adder in the logic would need 64 of these.) For curiosity's sake, if you imagined that the entire chip consisted of nothing but adders, you could work backwards to figure out how many full adders would be on there....The full adder would probably be comprised of 9 gates. In CMOS logic, one of these gates probably contains 4 transistors. So we can figure that there would be 36 transistors per full adder (maybe plus a few depending on the implementation). So then on a chip with a billion transistors, you could fit 27 million of these full adders on it....But you wouldn't be able to do anything useful with it.
+Dan Ehrman Actual adders in almost all contemporary ALUs of processors (CPUs, GPUs, DSPs...) use some kind of parallel prefix tree adder (implemented as systolic or semi-systolic network), which is a different kind of topology than the (mechanical) carry ripple adder you're trying to build, except for some ultra low power & ultra small+slow µP/µC which still might use this very simple topology. Ok, a few others use carry skip or carry save adders, which is are even different topologies.
Although this machine looks complicated, it's real purpose should allow you to realize computers work on fundamental, universal concepts. In other words, even if you don't understand what is going on, a computer *CAN* be created simply using plastic (or wood, or brass, etc.) You could essentially take this machine back 100 or 1 Million years to teach "digital logic." Just replace plastic with metal and motors with running water. Computers are nothing other than these components, miniaturized. The *fundamental* difference between this and your iPhone is size.
David Maiolo why did you make such a nice comment and then to close it with iphone..... i dont have one, and call it your phone. Im not calling my phone a (insert phone name type and model here) im calling it my phone.
North Koreas supercomputer in action with 3d-printing the biggest nuke ever made, 20x as big as Tsar Bomba, before being dropped on the USA, 2020 colorized
It's been 19 years since Y2K, I think... I havn't seen a working clock or day light since 99... So I built one out of K'Nex. I also built a generator, and sex robot too. It's not efficient, or comfortable, but it works. Tried eating them for food, but couldn't make that work. Had to make a K'Nex mouse trap. Ironically this was actually harder to make work than the sex robot. It must be worse up there than I thought if even the mice all died off. Having solved all of my immediate needs, I am now going about trying to build a computer. Hopefully, if I can simulate the crisis event, I can find out what happened up there, and maybe even a cure. Or maybe my own creation will kill me. It's not like I have anything else to live for. The sex bot and mice aren't companions. It's this or die alone...
Never seen this before! Right of the bat I’m impressed! I use to build at random things with this as a kid. To see them do math is mind blowing. Props from me man. I’m geeked out watching this.
Holy crap, watching this has let me know what a genius Turing was when he designed the first mechanical computer for ww2 from thin air... this is amazing.
That was the same problem with vacuum tube computers back in the day. It wasn't that they couldn't be made to work it was that they ended up being so dad blasted huge. If you don't know about them already Google the word "Univac".
Yes. That was true with the old switch and vacuum tube jobbies as well, and the principal impetus for developing solid state transistor versions as well as the IC based ones now. Greater speed and more reliability.
I would love to cuddle with a hairy old wizard man and feel his soft white beard and gently tug on his chest-tail. Men need to be affectionate and cuddle with each other. Love not lust. I have a soft spot for chubby bearded guys and long haired black men.
Just under 10 minutes. It's like you're trying to make it enjoyable to watch instead of making us watch a random ad. Props to you. Also, 999k views, 1M soon!
The most amazing part of this is that I am watching a video of a mechanical, simple adding machine....ON A FREAKING LAPTOP COMPUTER lol!!!! And I'm TOTALLY enamored with it!!! Goes to show how much we take our tech for granted.
First last are you fucking blind or just an inconceivable idiot? This guy was obviously joking, not to mention that he said that the guy was awesome. I wouldn't be surprised if your brain was the size of an amoeba
*sigh* He was *jokingly* mocking intelligence, which is then counteracted by the fact that he thinks it's awesome, while you on the other hand, straight up ignored him saying it's awesome and barraged with him words that was meant to insult him, even though you apparently *knew* it was a joke???? You're the mongoloid in this one.
Thanks, everyone, for the humorous comments. I know it's been a long time since I've posted. Here's the update on this project:
In 2018, I put together plans for a full 12-bit computer based on the old PDP-8 architecture, capable of running VERY simple programs (with a maximum of 64 instructions) like finding the Nth number in a Fibonacci series. I also built prototype parts for the new mechanical logic required to make it all work. The goal would be to educate folks about how computers work in a fun, interactive way-and to push folks to think BIG (pun intended).
Here's the roadblock: the machine would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, require several people to help build it and maintain it, and require a truly MASSIVE space (think warehouse, not a basement). It'll be a heavy lift to get to that point. I'm still weighing options, but a good start is that K'nex has said they will be able to support the logistics of providing the 15,000 motors required.
In the meantime, if you're interested in seeing videos explaining these plans, including demos of the prototype components and how the logic works, give me a thumbs up, and I'll see if I can find the time to make that happen.
Dan Ehrman
DO IT
JUST DO IT
DON'T LET YOUR DREAMS BE DREAMS
YESTERDAY YOU SAID TOMORROW
SO JUST DO IT
MAKE YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE
JUST DO IT
SOME PEOPLE DREAM OF SUCCESS
WHILE YOU'RE GONNA WAKE UP AND WORK HARD AT IT
NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE
YOU SHOULD GET TO THE POINT
WHERE ANYONE ELSE WOULD QUIT
AND YOU'RE NOT GOING TO STOP THERE
NO, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?
DO IT
JUST DO IT
YES YOU CAN
JUST DO IT
IF YOU'RE TIRED OF STARTING OVER
STOP GIVING UP
Dan Ehrman first of all, why
Second of all, holy shit yes
Don’t worry about a full computer just building prototype components as a proof of concept is more than enough
Crack TheBack yeah I agree it’s a strange idea to spend over 100k on a computer made out of this stuff like what
Dan Ehrman people would probably find some kind of piping looking thing with lights to be more interesting than k’nex
Like take some old CPU and expand each wire out and add LEDs
Teachers: "You wont always have a calculator"
*Pulls out a box of K'nex* "Thats where you're wrong kiddo"
Do they really still say that in the smartphone era?
@@NotAGoodUsername360 smartphone era
@@NotAGoodUsername360 yes
Middle-aged kiddo
@@NotAGoodUsername360
This man really just said "Smartphone Era" unironically.
Unfortunately, every few minutes it pops up a hand written sign pestering the user to upgrade to Windows 10.
WiNdOwS 8.1
Or the blue screen of death.
🤣
Lmfao GOLD
@@jvolstad OMG. I was at work the other day and walked in from an errand to the office computer and the BSoD. My heart sank. I spent the next 7 hours rebuilding the office computer software profile from scratch. Lost a day's worth of productivity over it. First time I have seen that in Windows 10.
okay now do this but with lincoln logs
I've seen more of your comments than your videos lmao
do it with tinker toys
why do you comment on every video ever
You are everywhere
Do it with ball in a cup.
NASA’s budget cut is really starting to show
Thats really good :D
Zach Whitlow lol
This joke made me laugh way to hard.
You sir win the internet
i subed to your channel because of this comment
"Playing Roblox on a redstone computer in minecraft, which is being played on a k'nex computer irl"
David Cooper when you need to be anonymous bruh you do what you have to do
But in roblox you're building a k'nex computer on a k'nex roblox server
But roblox is gayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
EchoHime __ u r gay ;)))
Holy shit
this was posted in 2011, Its 2019. This dude probably flying to work on this shit by now.
5 bucks he still in his parents house still playing with legos
@@LAVIN20 its knex not lego
Can't wait for the teleporter addition in 2020
He’s probley working on a knex analytical engine by now
@@LAVIN20 bait used to be believable
“Okay, let’s turn it on.”
*windows startup noise*
*runs memz destructive *
Why can I hear it?
*plays paint
**formats C:drive**
I bet it has enough ram to run my minecraft server on
I've always found these machines fascinating to watch. While I don't understand a dang thing, this is super impressive. The slowest and loudest way possible to figure out 1-1, but still impressive.
kirby gamez you should see me do math
Too bad the human mind doesnt work this way
-Michael Remington it works by adding 0 and 1 like this
-Kirby gamez its easily done with logic gates, its very interesting, and not and or gates make up all computers
Not- 0=1
1=0
And-1,1=1
1,0=0
0,0=0
Or-1,1=1
1,0=1
0,0,=0
Combining makes all possible logic gate combinations
@@imagineexistance4538 I understand how computers work I'm minoring computer science rn. I don't know why I even commented that
Nah the slowest way to figure out 1 - 1 is to spend a few billion years evolving biological life to the point where an organism can perform simple abstractions.
What antivirus software would you recommend for this?
AndroidParadox i recommend wd-40 for machines running KN'OS
AndroidParadox Water
Protegent
Jorolfs
You beat me, I was gonna say that...
A finger is a good antivirus
“it’s that simple”
If you studied logic circuits it really is very simple, it's just a matter of haveing the time to assemble the entire thing. A full adder is not that complicated at all. A full modern computer is.
@@DrunkGeko r/woooosh
Giona Cantarutti Smartass...
@@larsvanzutphen9095 i'm not being a smartass, you can literally learn how a full adder works by messing a bit with readstone minecraft and watching a damn tutorial
Giona Cantarutti It’s not that simple, i don’t see alot of people do the same thing as this dude. It’s extremely hard to do this.
I'm more impressed that structure can support its own weight.
Dans’ wife is always like:- “Dangit Dan!!! Put the Legos away! It’s dinner time!!!”
Dan:-“they’re not Legos”.
Tillamook lol
I don't think there's a wife..
ha.
He has a WIFE?
Tillamook exactly
They’re LEGO bricks
But can it run crisis 3?
Crysis 3? I wanna see it play minecraft!
calofc01s no, but it can run Doom
It can run 4k at 144fps on high settings.
Nah can it run minesweeper
can it run a mile?
How familiar are you with the gear wars?
I respect this reference.
Boy do I envy you!
x'D this is exactly what i was thinking
Fuck you beat me to it. By a year...
Fucking Epic
"as you can see" shit son idk what hell I'm looking at lmao
Nah bro
@@SatanenPerkele good effort on a funny comment, it's just kinda offensive man :P peace and love ;)
rando man well that’s exactly what they do. They find a subject, and they focus on that and normally only that subject.
@@cheeseburger8486 no I have a decent understanding of autism, that doesn't take the offensiveness out of his comment tho.
K'nuter: "What is my purpose?"
Human: "You add or subtract single digit numbers."
K'nuter: "...Oh my god"
Single BIT numbers.
No, it passes the butter
Rick and morty refrenceeeeeeeeeee!!
Welcome to the club pal
Rick and morty butter bot
Dan, I watched your video maybe 9 or 10 years ago... I was amazed by your computer and was determined to know how it all worked. Now I’m studying as an electrical engineer at the top of my class. And I finally completely understand how computers are built. Thank you for your demonstration.
this guy would flip if he realized his phone has a calculator
Yeah but he originally made it 9 years ago
@@MartianV2GG the i phone came out 12 years ago
@@shutupnerd9694 eww iPhone
@@shutupnerd9694 r/wooosh
@@GKPranav how is that a woosh?
Think about it: if you had enough of these to simulate a human mind, you will not only have created life, but also you would have a shit ton of K'nex
Okay, would it be enough K'nex to create a second moon?
The most epic of roasts by @@tempname8263
The best computers today cannot match the complexity of the human mind.
@@BloodySeaGullsRoss Naw, they've made virtual brains/neural networks now. They pretty much know how it works.
@@OceanFragments that's completely different from a human mind
To think that the computer i'm watching this on has billions of these things inside it....
Messa k'nuter complex!
Your computer is full of k´nex???
@@AlbertoDsign no it's called a switch
*idiot*
@@buffalocrackerdong6978 no, that's a Nintendo
@Norris Jinglewilly I´m computer?
Before today I used to call myself a K'NEX Master Builder
Correction: I am not a K'NEX Master Builder
Remember when you made a lego house and you were proud of it?
When's the memory bank? I've been waiting 7 years
Aiden Howard he died
@@carlos8495 Dude, he commented on this video 2 weeks ago
Read the description. "NOTE: This project is now on indefinite hold as I no longer have the funding to complete it. I appreciate all the wonderful support my viewers have provided; hopefully some day we can show K'Nex how much people care about this effort and regain their support to build the first full K'NEX computer."
@@consciousasymmetry well according the the description, the original project was sponsored by K'Nex. "Regain their support" ?
bro I’ve been waiting 13 years where’s the follow-up?
When you’re prescribed adderall
@@ven0IVI exactly right, it slows down the people who really need it
AreoTale That May not always be true. There’s an inattentive type of ADD that possibly presents itself as disheveled, shy, careless, etc. I would say Adderall/stimulants make people with ADD normal and functional.
@@ven0IVI well when I took it made me feel slow, I do better without it
AreoTale I’ve been diagnosed with ADD inattentive so maybe that’s why my comment doesn’t make sense to you. Adderall gives me energy and makes me focus. Doesn’t make me hyper.
@@aryatale5232 Yeah it depends on what type of ADHD you have, Inattentive, combined or hyperactive.
This spins my mind, but I'm so fascinated by it that I keep coming back for more. Computers and cars are really the only things I can research for hours on end and not get bored within 5 minutes.
There are so many other really cool things too though.
Car people never made sense to me. to each his own but im more interested in the idea of complex systems that you can TELL when there working or not.
dude 1 sec longer and he could monitize it and get the foundings he needs
So unfortunate. If only he didn't turn that nob lolol
He could just edit the video in youtube and add a second.
You can monetize with any length of video, 10 minutes just lets you put more ads on it
You can monetize a video shorter than 10 minutes. Haha. He just won't be able to put 3 ads on it. Video length determines the amount of ads you put on a video not if you will be able to have ads at all.
When this video was uploaded, ten minutes was the maximum duration allowed. Really.
Me - so what do you do in your free time
This guy - I build computers
Me - oh I built one once pretty hard
This guy - ever tried it with k’nex
Me - tf
Overclock it!
The problem is that the parts will friction weld if he speeds it up.
@@RRanun give it knex powered water cooling
Lol team up with photonicinduction
it'll get so loud!
Flying Daddy They’d probably burn the house down
How far did you get before the funding was cut off?
+CreeperOnYourHouse Babbage joke
Turing joke.
Anthony Khodanian Asimov Reference
CreeperOnYourHouse
Every electric engineering/computer science/software company ever.
I mean he doesn't even show it working
9:40 "That's how simple it is"
No shnout buddy
...
Nice profile pic
DeltaBravo me or him
it is for a genius
imagine this guy were born in the 1800s.
Steam powered computer will be made.
Not really. If they had a calculation liike the one this computer can do they would been better off using paper and pen.
That's what Babbage thought could power his Difference Engine.
*AMD would like to know your location*
Amd be using knock off knex
@@mreyeball3085 As if they cant use Chinese knockoff Lego.
Teacher: You may use calculators.
Dan: May I get mine from my locker?
Teacher: Okay.
*Drops down 6 foot tall K'NEX Computer.*
Teacher: What is this!
Dan: It's my calculator.
*Flips on surge suppressor causing the sound of 100's of gears grinding.
Dan enters 2-1*
2 minutes later.
Computer: 1
Success
Edit. 400 likes, wow.
Jack Frost Young famous quote
Jack Frost Young
You can't do "2", b(10), with this adder. Only "0" or "1".
And the answer wouldn't be 1 it would be 0, because the output is inverted.
Teachers don’t let you use calculators
Why are there so many smartasses in the comments that can't take a joke
So, what's your CPU's clock rate?
It's about 2 rpm.
Jane Doe wait until you hear how fast his HDD spins
I was proud when I was a kid and was able to build a ferris wheel without using the instructions in the set.
What is this, amateur hour?
i mean that is still pretty impressive
This was made in 2011!?!
It has great quality
Yea
Yea
Yea
Yea
Yea
Well, I made the large hedron k'nider
GΛLΛXY
Maybe if you smash enough Knex, you will find the God particle 😂
Bruh!
hadron*
That's where legos come from.
How about you buy out your entire neighbourhood after you win the lottery, then put about 500,000 of these in the town, and combine them all then install Windows XP on it
AtomicCookieGaming dos
AtomicCookieGaming but could it run doom?
Snipe508 one frame every couple years.
Super Adri or brainfuck.
It MIGHT work...
If K'NEX is still in business they should sponsor you.
Blue Xans They did
H C wow...
Blue Xans they could stay in business with this guy alone
Are they still rightnow?
Blue Xans K nex stopped! I used to play with these years ago
Huh. UA-cam is recommending me videos I've seen years ago.
EpicN I remember watching this long ago too
I watched this around 2 years ago so you aren't only one
Me too
me too
Same
really cool, but why is this video from 6 years ago suddenly becoming popular instead of back then
Cos youtube/ google changed their algorithm again, perhaps.
well, I don't know if he knows or not, but he's got like almost 4000 subscribers now. I don't know if it would've gotten actually popular back then like it did now.
Because humanity finally caught up
My theory is because of the popularity of Minecraft computer videos. The concept of mechanical computing is widespread enough now I suppose
Because that was suggested to us by Google's algorithm? UA-cam suggestions?
*_Does it run Windows?_*
Elton Lee
In Trump's America, Windows runs you.
Elton Lee Chrome OS
Elton Lee it can only run Windows Vista unfortunately. We're still waiting for the test models to update and fine tune compatibility for more advanced software
It runs MS-DOS 0.01
*plays Windows Xp theme
Teacher: why are you laughing??
Me: nothing...
My mind: k'nuter
What happens when you do 0 divided by 0?
it becomes self aware
it dismantles its self
Levi Monsen you get 1.
Tactical nuke
*FBI OPEN UP*
When you K'nut but she keeps computing
Ray Plays Games i came to the comments just to see if someone made a joke about the K-nutTer
Ray Plays Games yes
This comment... thank you
Nice
Glorious comment, the machine spirit has been appeased.
Ima need this guy when the apocalypse comes.
Grant’s CREAMIEST memes lol
i can admire his skill and all but a lego computer int going to save you in an apocalypse situation. i can think of at least 10 youtubers i'd rather have by my side. all Archers and swordsmen. because arrows and blades kill. lego computers do not.
@Jedd Rowbotham
What if the apocalypse involves and enemy that can't necessarily be _killed_ ? like machines or natural disasters?
Lindybeige. He could charm any would be adversary, and before they even knew what had happened, they would be engrossed in his narratives.
Jedd Rowbotham Who says guns won't survive? Get ammunition manufacturers and weapon repair people.
Watched the whole thing not having the slightest clue what he was talking about.
Same here.
I'm with you, I don't know how this crap works
I'm a computer engineer, and I have no idea either. He uses terms like "relay" and "transistor" to describe things that are nothing like relays or transistors.
@@BrightBlueJim I think that rotation represents a logic 1, while no rotation represents a logic zero. A relay can complete or interrupt a gear train. I'm not sure how a relay differs from a transistor though.
uzumakiking same
"This project is very important to me as it is part of a long-term personal goal to create a macroscopic realization of some of the intricacies that comprise a modern computer."
very cool, stuff like this inspires more people to start programming
Is this how you upload your you tube videos
Sting ray no it's how he watches porn
Sting ray how fast is his internet
DiamondRhino64 5Terabytes a millisecond
Silverwing 30 pixels per minute I guess
Rarely Seen lol I'm dying that would be great!
the 60's called, they want their room-sized computers back.
Super Sophisticated No we don't.
Yeah and I got 900 missed calls already
Damn
"The 2090s called you're dead and wasted your time here on Earth"
Maybe 1860s, computers in 1960s weren't mechanical
I don’t know about you, but I would take this over windows 8.
That's fine because nobody uses 8 anyway. Ever heard of windows 10 or have you been living in a cave this past two years.
Win10 is a marginal improvement over Win8.1, which itself is a marginal improvement over Win8.
Win10 is mostly malware built on top of a barely adequate OS.
It remains that Win8 was an abomination, which I think makes OP right.
Dan's Parents: "Well Dear, even though the doctors are concerned, at least it keeps him off the streets..."
Dude, being a digital designer (and having built these circuits using both transistors and TTL-logic gates) my hat is totally off to you! Mr. Turing would be impressed. You are indeed one of those UA-cam gems. More power to ya!
#SUB!
I would love to see a final version
Where do i put the graphics card?
Oh man, I can only imagine how big of a fucking machine he'd have to build using these in order to get something similar to a graphics card.
(imagine one world trade center, like...that big, and that's probably an understatement)
Something that size would be almost (not) close to comparable to my GPU.
I have integrated graphics.
ZirrasElite it’s not possible.
ZirrasElite Actually, let's work that out. Let's say for the sake of argument, a typical transistor or the smallest element in a modern cpu is around 20nm (this year it should be half that for the smallest process node size, again simplification). We can roughly assume from the scale of the video given that a single gate made out of k'nex in this machine is roughly 25cm. Again, a bit of simplification here is needed because in most cases the actual transistor isn't as "boxy" as shown here, it's more or less "flat". So by simple division, 2.5 m x10^-2 / 2.0 x 10^-8 m is, again roughly, 1,275,000 times bigger in actual size.
Now, if we're talking graphics cards, a typical modern graphics cards usually has _billions_ of these types of elements. So uh, yeah, roughly multiply that by the scale factor of 1.2 million and well, you got your dimensions. It's literally a million times bigger XD
BOB.org we are also missing the speed, while it may be able to do complex calculations at that size even if you beefed the crap out of those motors electricity travels at something like 50 to 99 percent the speed of light. So we are talking about something that moves at way less than 1 percent the speed of light. Interesting as it is it would take a day for a single calculation. Idk im not an engineer what do i know
A computer capable of bruteforcing a 1 byte password
1 bit
Only one million views in so long? This is brilliant beyond words. Congratulations :)
Core Speed of 0.001hz
NightGrounds more like 0.01 mHz
NightGrounds hz is faster than 5 minutes of 1 calculation
NightGrounds
0.002 with over clocking
does this even count as a 1 core processor
+Cif The Meme Man 1hz = 1 second
At least this computer is resistant to EMP bombs
the motors are not but he can make it wind powered or any other kind of power source who need 0 electronic parts
Cédric Raymond they would, they are not delicate like a micro CPU
That doesn't mean it's going to be any more useful than one that has ceased to function.
Besides, an EMP won't do much damage to many older computers anyways - with no magnetic media, there's nothing to erase.
Emphasis213 it's not tho, they run on fucking motors
I think you probably could hand crank it
Speechless....what an amazing machine.
I'm equal parts impressed and surprised by the apparent complexity of this design...
A full adder consists of only 5 logic gates, and from things I determined earlier you can construct that from roughly 10 transistors...
Your machine is exceptionally large for that.
Perhaps it HAS to be, but it still surprises me that it would need to be that large, even considering what it's made of...
*girls want him*
*guys wanna be him*
idk im a guy and i want him
the all mighty pizza you're just gonna assume guys wont want him either 😉
Some girls like money, he probably got a good job cause of computers n' shit
When you gonna bring out the k phone?
Not useful since it's going to be the size of a refrigerator.
More like kempire state building
next bethesda release: skyrim for this pc
Carius98 How long is the load times
Nearly as long as this reply took to appear.
So 7 months?
@@Poplock4121 I'd give it 20 years just to load to the menu
@@aqua3418 assuming it runs at a few beers at least a billion seconds
if I had the plans for this as a kid I would have spent all the hours to construct it and been the happiest one ever. Seriously, I hated it when constructing those rollercoasters only took a day. This has so much potential to teach kids.
The computer on which you are watching this video has hundreds of these machines on a tiny chip.
more like hundreds of thousands.
thecooldude9999 It's more like billions actually.
Zach Weibel More like thousands. This is a full adder, but your "billions" number is an actual transistor count. There's no good way of knowing how many full adders Company X has put on their chip, but thousands wouldn't be an unreasonable guess. (Just think: any 64-bit adder in the logic would need 64 of these.)
For curiosity's sake, if you imagined that the entire chip consisted of nothing but adders, you could work backwards to figure out how many full adders would be on there....The full adder would probably be comprised of 9 gates. In CMOS logic, one of these gates probably contains 4 transistors. So we can figure that there would be 36 transistors per full adder (maybe plus a few depending on the implementation). So then on a chip with a billion transistors, you could fit 27 million of these full adders on it....But you wouldn't be able to do anything useful with it.
Yeah but this knex.
+Dan Ehrman Actual adders in almost all contemporary ALUs of processors (CPUs, GPUs, DSPs...) use some kind of parallel prefix tree adder (implemented as systolic or semi-systolic network), which is a different kind of topology than the (mechanical) carry ripple adder you're trying to build, except for some ultra low power & ultra small+slow µP/µC which still might use this very simple topology. Ok, a few others use carry skip or carry save adders, which is are even different topologies.
I used to make stick figures
Ares5933 shit I still make stick figures and eat glue
You obviously have mor knowledge than this dude who calls a processor a computer.
😂 lol "not a cat person"
Although this machine looks complicated, it's real purpose should allow you to realize computers work on fundamental, universal concepts. In other words, even if you don't understand what is going on, a computer *CAN* be created simply using plastic (or wood, or brass, etc.) You could essentially take this machine back 100 or 1 Million years to teach "digital logic." Just replace plastic with metal and motors with running water. Computers are nothing other than these components, miniaturized. The *fundamental* difference between this and your iPhone is size.
Take it back to 2009 and use it to create the first bit coin and rename it a Bit Koin
And a screen
David Maiolo not really
David Maiolo why did you make such a nice comment and then to close it with iphone..... i dont have one, and call it your phone. Im not calling my phone a (insert phone name type and model here) im calling it my phone.
David Maiolo is
This video has a better quality than pewds vids...
...BUT THIS VID IS 8 YEARS OLD!!
North Koreas supercomputer in action with 3d-printing the biggest nuke ever made, 20x as big as Tsar Bomba, before being dropped on the USA, 2020 colorized
First Last lol wtf are you idiots talking about?
nomoreusernames most of the information we gather is mainly from drones...
Nathan Tompson can you libtard idiots get lost and not talk about politics on this neat video...
First Last its sad but true europe is being raped ti death but islamic countrys
SUBSCRIBE FOR HELP WIT UR KOMPUTER *Not a scam* LOL Your Name
"that paddle is Turing"
OHOHO I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE
Wait, did this pass the 1-1 Turing test?
How much RAM bro?
DAt BOi DAt MEme 1 byte of ddr1
Cif The Meme Man you like memz?
0. It's just an adder; has no memory.
Khyrberos it was just a prank bro
the all natural cooling system looks great
with the .01 core processor
Very very impressive mechanical machine . I suspect that few people realize how clever this machine and its builder really are.
It's been 19 years since Y2K, I think... I havn't seen a working clock or day light since 99... So I built one out of K'Nex. I also built a generator, and sex robot too. It's not efficient, or comfortable, but it works. Tried eating them for food, but couldn't make that work. Had to make a K'Nex mouse trap. Ironically this was actually harder to make work than the sex robot. It must be worse up there than I thought if even the mice all died off. Having solved all of my immediate needs, I am now going about trying to build a computer. Hopefully, if I can simulate the crisis event, I can find out what happened up there, and maybe even a cure. Or maybe my own creation will kill me. It's not like I have anything else to live for. The sex bot and mice aren't companions. It's this or die alone...
alternate universe terry davis
This is beyond science
Mm, yeah. I know some of these words
Bobby Trill is that from Goodburger?
It means that I get 80 percent of the money you make and you get the other 20
Still faster than a iMac
So that's why old computers are so big they used K'Nex
You could've literally named it anything else.
But you named it the k'nuter.
Is this a video of the reincarnation of Alan Turing discovering k’nex?
Never seen this before! Right of the bat I’m impressed! I use to build at random things with this as a kid. To see them do math is mind blowing. Props from me man. I’m geeked out watching this.
Holy crap, watching this has let me know what a genius Turing was when he designed the first mechanical computer for ww2 from thin air... this is amazing.
Kyle Li aero computer
Just a suggestion, have a look at the careers of Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace.😀
wait, am I understanding correctly that this monolith is an ALU capable of adding or subtracting a single bit of data?
It's a one bit adder, a piece of an ALU.
@Brian C Its a huge machine that represents something which is now a sub-instruction on a modern processor. And I mean like a few gates.
half adder
lol this is so similar to psychedelic substances !!! awesome
tvoipapa I think it’s a full adder because it has c-ins
Thank you UA-cam reccomendations, very cool!
Why have I not seen this until now, this is awesome! Great job dude!
If that is only a full adder then you gonna need a football field to fit the entire computer
That was the same problem with vacuum tube computers back in the day. It wasn't that they couldn't be made to work it was that they ended up being so dad blasted huge. If you don't know about them already Google the word "Univac".
You'll need a year to execute a single calculation. And "normal" wear and tear will mean you have to rebuild the calculator after every calculation.
Yes. That was true with the old switch and vacuum tube jobbies as well, and the principal impetus for developing solid state transistor versions as well as the IC based ones now. Greater speed and more reliability.
Dan: *divides by zero*
Computer: *_Am I joke to you?_*
My gosh, you are cool. You built a mechanical computer. I’ve always wanted to build one
This is actually so genius, props to this guy!
You're a wizard Harry!
BNGFilms And your a hairy wizard.
I would love to cuddle with a hairy old wizard man and feel his soft white beard and gently tug on his chest-tail. Men need to be affectionate and cuddle with each other. Love not lust. I have a soft spot for chubby bearded guys and long haired black men.
"And tomorrow we will make a fully functional atom collide!"
Split*
Now I know why I can ever find many k'nex at the store YOU TOOK THEM ALL!
Just under 10 minutes. It's like you're trying to make it enjoyable to watch instead of making us watch a random ad.
Props to you.
Also, 999k views, 1M soon!
No One:
UA-cam Recommendations: *Watch this 8 year old video*
Welcome to the club, fam.
Torva lol same...
That is why I’m here
They're looking for a new way to secure the database.
Weird
This looks like the thing the British used to crack the German code in WW2
Ken Vincent its just an imatation... game
yes it was very similar
The Bombe
Alan Turing
Ken Vincent benderditch cucumberbatch
so level with me, i understood nothing in the video.... is this a k'nex skynet?
tom connolley He made a massive machine to calculate 1-1
No, you are just dumb
It's more like a cpu then anything really.
You fools, this is no mere joke. We must take refuge in advance from the Judgement Day that will be brought upon us by Sky'Nex
A sk’net
The most amazing part of this is that I am watching a video of a mechanical, simple adding machine....ON A FREAKING LAPTOP COMPUTER lol!!!! And I'm TOTALLY enamored with it!!! Goes to show how much we take our tech for granted.
I got around half way before I realized you must have built and designed this. Wtf is wrong with you. (In a good way this is awesome)
> Tries to defend smart people
> Uses dumb slurs instead of argument
First Last
Okay, Mr. Nygma.
We get it, you're our intellectual superior. Now chill the fuck out
First last are you fucking blind or just an inconceivable idiot? This guy was obviously joking, not to mention that he said that the guy was awesome. I wouldn't be surprised if your brain was the size of an amoeba
*sigh* He was *jokingly* mocking intelligence, which is then counteracted by the fact that he thinks it's awesome, while you on the other hand, straight up ignored him saying it's awesome and barraged with him words that was meant to insult him, even though you apparently *knew* it was a joke???? You're the mongoloid in this one.
You should switch to 'Abo'.
I can tell what you got your masters in
Probably has his Mastur's in Bating...🙃
mindless university memorizers can only duplicate the machine plans they are given
Janes Amp university is actually when you start contributing to your field on a deeper level than memorization
@@anesamm945 is that what you tell your coworkers at burger king?
I only read the title as k'nutted
airsoft squad boi, I nutted.
From k'nuter to k'nutted
Can I be the 1000th person to ask can it run Crysis?
Haha, this comment made my day!
betterwise; Can it run Doom