Sure, there's metal in it. But it definitely is possible to make one entirely mechanically. Whether that be wood, plastic, or even some metal that _doesn't_ have any electrical purposes, as seen here. The metal doesn't make any difference.
The machine starts in state A. Tape get's always pulled to the left unless there is a pin in the R coulumn of the program table. Unless a next state is specified, the machine halts. The stick in each field on the tape can be in three states, "b", "0", and "1", as illustrated by the writing on the right side of the machine. The program "binary increment" adds 1 to a binary number, which is the same as changing the rightmost 0 to a 1 and all 1s behind that to 0. 0:53 Second line applies because the machine is in state A and reads "0". The seven fingers on the left side on the machine detect that the machine stays in state A and does nothing particular. 0:57 ... again 1:00 This time the value on the tape is "1", so the first line of the program applies, but it's the same command as the second line. 1:04 ... again 1:08 Now, there is neither a "1" or a "0", but a "b", so the third line of the program applies. It says "R" and "B", which means that the tape pulls back to the right and the state of the machine is now B. Basically, at the beginning the machine just goes right until it finds the end of the data. 1:11 State B, 1 on tape, therefore write 0, go right again and stay in state B. 1:15 ... again 1:19 State B, 0 on tape, therefore write 1 (the carry over) and halt because there are no pins in the "A", "B", or "C" column. The increment of 0011 is 0100.
Magnificent! Brilliant piece of work! Your camshaft seems to be doing the equivalent of clock cycles - instruction fetch, decode, execute, memory read, memory write. Old electromechnical computers (and pinball machines) had a similar system.
You should definitely pair up with a creator to have a version of this in LegoIdeas. One of the last creation is the "grand piano" it shows there are definitely the mecanical possibilities with something close to your design to have a compact and esthetic mecanical lego turing machine.
I was searching on YT how the machine works. I am not in the field but your work is really above definitions!! congratulations!!! and thanks for sharing
This is awesome! :-) For those who do not know what "Turing Machine" means and are too lazy to read Wikipedia: The Turing machine was invented in 1936 by Alan Turing, who called it an a-machine (automatic machine) A Turing machine is a mathematical model of computation that defines an abstract machine, which manipulates symbols on a strip of tape according to a table of rules. Despite the model's simplicity, given any computer algorithm, a Turing machine capable of simulating that algorithm's logic can be constructed. The machine operates on an infinite memory tape divided into discrete cells. The machine positions its head over a cell and "reads" (scans) the symbol there. Then, as per the symbol and its present place in a finite table of user-specified instructions, the machine writes a symbol (e.g., a digit or a letter from a finite alphabet) in the cell (some models allowing symbol erasure or no writing), then either moves the tape one cell left or right (some models allow no motion, some models move the head), then (as determined by the observed symbol and the machine's place in the table) either proceeds to a subsequent instruction or halts the computation.
Richard RIDEL provides us with proof of capability to build a 100% computer wooden made! One word to summarize such a thing: fantastic! In addition, il's very beautiful to see the mechanic movements of all pieces! Great job!
Nah. It's like eating an elephant, one bite at a time. Make a plan and solve the problems one bite at a time. As long as you're solving problems you're looking at the finish line. But, thank you.
This is amazing. I had started making this from legos, but haven't come close to finishing it. It is very nice to see that someone else made a real mechanical version of the turing machine tho.
Follow up, I got the one from legos working! It's still not fully done though, but I managed to run some simple programs on it. I will probably finish it next summer. Once I make a video on it and uploaded it (to another account) I will forward it. Also going to credit this video and many others for inspiration :)
Dude - you are seriously some kind of genius - never seen anything like this - good enough to put into a museum - belongs in the Smithsonian for sure - cheers
i.. love.. you.. who ever you are that made this. its so epic :D and great documentation and sketches, only took a couple min to figure out the workings :D
Wow! Holy shirt! This machine is a MASTERPIECE of design, engineering, workmanship - across the board ASTOUNDING! Superb! Well done, Sir! (BTW - I slammed the "like" & "subscribe" buttons so hard I nearly broke my screen!)
I've seen similar things that use binary to accomplish a pluthera of tasks. I am disappointed there was not any greater effort put into the communicating of your goals precisely here. You are obviously an intelligent individual and I would love to hear you share in much greater detail! That'd be amazing! I am right about to check out the link you put in the description. Can't wait!!! I am also saddened to see below so many people insult others who asked to have a more direct explanation I think for people to shit talk down a curious mind is a horrible thing. Asking questions, seeking further explanations on things is wonderful, and is how we all learn & grow. Communication is the key to everything, and I believe some more direct communication would have been wonderful here. And I am proud to see other humans asking questions. It's wonderful! Horay for learning!!
who needs solar flare vulnerable power supply requiring electromagnetic systems when you can make a system capable of universal computation, out of processed organic matter, and power it with yourself, yourself a thinking being made out of processed organic matter that requires processed organic matter to function. This is the most impressive carpentry and mechanical design I have seen in a long while.
Looks pretty cool, but i don't understand what it is, what it does, who it works, and what it is for. Another video would be nice to really grasp the complexity of your machine and achievement.
This is freaking amazing. You sir are a (Turing) complete genius. One little suggestion is adding springs to the cam followers so that you can add a motor to the power input and get a better computation speed
It's beautifully made, and is clearly performing some sort of logic operation, but a commentary, or notes in the description saying what it accomplishes would have been really good. I tried to follow your link, but it involves opening a new account on Onedrive, and I'm not going to give my credentials to yet another website that may get hacked and lose them for nefarious purposes - not just to see one thing.
This is amazing very fantastic work. I am wondering: what's your feeling for this kind of design to be adapted to more states, you would say: it changes more or less everything and the morphology should be totally rethink, it's possible but with some work, it's in fact quite straightforward to adapt (I am talking about the design step, not the crafting)
Pretty neat design and build , i liked the comment about. The Hamster wheel that was funny i also liked all the different wood species you used The machine looks like something Matthaias Wandel would build as he likes wooden gears and has incorporated them into several projects he has shared on his UA-cam channel
Have you heard about the Analytical Engine? It's a computer which is powered by steam energy, was planned to be built in 1837, a hundered years before the first computer was built, but wasn't built due to a lack of budget. Turing also was inspired by Babbage's work. There is a group called Plan28, which their goal is to build this machine.Do you have a detailed plan of the machine described in the video?
Very cool. Ever thought of making a mechanical computer like the German Z1. Its based more on rods and the only electrical component is an electric motor to keep things spinning.
Leonardo could have built one of these. And if he had, there would have been a mechanical wood Internet by the time of Newton. And Newton's wmail to Haley would be arriving right about ... now.
This machine looks absolutely stunning! I just saw this video and I just NEED to get myself one of these :) I have a pretty solid understanding of Turing's machine and have good woodworking skills, but your creation just looks so complex and intricate. Did you by any chance ever end up copying down the various parts? If not, what part would you suggest someone who really wants to make one of these start at? Edit: I got most of the machine parts graphed out, the only part I'm confused on is the reverse. I can see that the metal bar is moved to the right whenever there is a pin in the reverse column, but I cannot tell how exactly that makes the bar that lowers and raises the head use the left gear (egg-shaped thing that pushes it down) instead of the usual right one. Could you perhaps do a top down picture of that region if it isn't too hard? Thanks for your time, and again, great work!
Hello Michael. I am documenting how my machine works and have completed the tape movement part. It is in pdf format and I can send it to you. It has drawings and explanations of the movement of the tape. I simply do not know how to get the file to you. This is why I work with wood.
Need to add like a Terabyte of Memory to emulate x86 and then another 10 years of spinning for an answer. Turing completeness is absolute. (With infinite memory)
Ok so the most interesting part of this video is the reading and writing: - The bits are represented on the chain by the pegs going through the blocks. I think the peg being evenly pushed in on both sides (neutral) is 0 and the peg being pushed to one side (uneven) is 1. - Between 3:06 - 3:32 we see a total of 4 read operations on a neutral, neutral, uneven, uneven block. - On the neutral blocks we see the head operate normally for block 1 and block 2, but on the uneven blocks we see the star thing in the middle of the head get pushed to one side on block3 and block 4 at 3:26 Writing: - The peg in the middle is pushed by some mechanism to move it from uneven to neutral at 2:00 - this is how the, lol chain of blocks lol, modifies state.
2:20 Is the configuration table the same thing as the microcode & sequencer? There is nothing new about Binary Digital Logic realized with these 'marble machines'. They have been around since the days of Liebnitz!
Reminds me of a thing called clockpunk which is basically steampunk but without the steam, set in the European Renaissance periods and utilises da vinci like mechanisms and clockwork instead.
Stunning! If you use a Tesla Turbine to power it then you would have a Tesla Turing Machine , lol . Have you ever thought about building a FLODAC , Patent 3190554 ? A digital computer that computes using air to say compute log tables would be one of my favorite You Tubes! I like to think that if Babbage had FLOWDAC tech the pipe organ folks could have make his Analytic Engine for him and Lady Lovelace could have invented COBOL.
This is not a Turing machine, because the wooden model can only invert bits or leave them unchanged. But the touring machine can do a lot more. Well done anyway.
You've just proved it's possible to build a computer made entirely of wood.
KarjamP you can see a metal wire at 0:27
>at 0:27
There are metal parts everywhere
Sure, there's metal in it. But it definitely is possible to make one entirely mechanically. Whether that be wood, plastic, or even some metal that _doesn't_ have any electrical purposes, as seen here.
The metal doesn't make any difference.
Actually it's Turing who proved it. This is more like showing that his proof was indeed correct by showing an example of a working machine.
LGR just grew a massive boner.
The machine starts in state A. Tape get's always pulled to the left unless there is a pin in the R coulumn of the program table. Unless a next state is specified, the machine halts.
The stick in each field on the tape can be in three states, "b", "0", and "1", as illustrated by the writing on the right side of the machine.
The program "binary increment" adds 1 to a binary number, which is the same as changing the rightmost 0 to a 1 and all 1s behind that to 0.
0:53 Second line applies because the machine is in state A and reads "0". The seven fingers on the left side on the machine detect that the machine stays in state A and does nothing particular.
0:57 ... again
1:00 This time the value on the tape is "1", so the first line of the program applies, but it's the same command as the second line.
1:04 ... again
1:08 Now, there is neither a "1" or a "0", but a "b", so the third line of the program applies. It says "R" and "B", which means that the tape pulls back to the right and the state of the machine is now B.
Basically, at the beginning the machine just goes right until it finds the end of the data.
1:11 State B, 1 on tape, therefore write 0, go right again and stay in state B.
1:15 ... again
1:19 State B, 0 on tape, therefore write 1 (the carry over) and halt because there are no pins in the "A", "B", or "C" column.
The increment of 0011 is 0100.
Thank you, Kevin.
I'd love to hook this up to a hamster wheel so I could tell people my hamster can do arithmetic.
You are genius !!
Mee too
Bravo! First time ever I've seen a FULLY mechanical Turing Machine. I was wondering if it ever could be made.
This is one of the coolest things I have ever seen.
Magnificent! Brilliant piece of work! Your camshaft seems to be doing the equivalent of clock cycles - instruction fetch, decode, execute, memory read, memory write. Old electromechnical computers (and pinball machines) had a similar system.
I just want to thank you Mr Ridel for this marvelous masterpiece. Some kindred spirit from France.
3 states A, B, C, and 3 possible values in each case, 0, 1, b ? Really amazing.
Thank you.
So it's ternary! It looks like balanced ternary on the tape but looks like unbalanced on the program table
@@Rudxain this is exactly what makes it even more interesting, though functionally im not sure if it makes full use of it
Wish you talked us through all the components and how it works.
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My phone Duden stop me typing so I did first one wrong
Nathan Abraham yes I agree.. I still don't understand exactly what was happening
Me niether...wonder why he just didn't explain it after all that work!
you want him to hold your pee pee when you have to take a tinkle?
This is one of the most amazing things I have ever seen built from wood :)
this is your brain on wood.
Best comment ever. Thanks.
In mandarin, the computer is also called an electrical brain. so this can be called a wooden brain? or mechanical brain?
You should definitely pair up with a creator to have a version of this in LegoIdeas. One of the last creation is the "grand piano" it shows there are definitely the mecanical possibilities with something close to your design to have a compact and esthetic mecanical lego turing machine.
This absolutely blows me away. Fantastic work!
I was searching on YT how the machine works. I am not in the field but your work is really above definitions!! congratulations!!! and thanks for sharing
Pdf link is dead
You should sell these! They are amazing!
Videos like this make my day. To me, this is true modern art.
This is awesome! :-)
For those who do not know what "Turing Machine" means and are too lazy to read Wikipedia:
The Turing machine was invented in 1936 by Alan Turing, who called it an a-machine (automatic machine)
A Turing machine is a mathematical model of computation that defines an abstract machine, which manipulates symbols on a strip of tape according to a table of rules. Despite the model's simplicity, given any computer algorithm, a Turing machine capable of simulating that algorithm's logic can be constructed.
The machine operates on an infinite memory tape divided into discrete cells. The machine positions its head over a cell and "reads" (scans) the symbol there. Then, as per the symbol and its present place in a finite table of user-specified instructions, the machine writes a symbol (e.g., a digit or a letter from a finite alphabet) in the cell (some models allowing symbol erasure or no writing), then either moves the tape one cell left or right (some models allow no motion, some models move the head), then (as determined by the observed symbol and the machine's place in the table) either proceeds to a subsequent instruction or halts the computation.
Richard RIDEL provides us with proof of capability to build a 100% computer wooden made! One word to summarize such a thing: fantastic! In addition, il's very beautiful to see the mechanic movements of all pieces! Great job!
You, mr. Ridel, are a genius!
Nah. It's like eating an elephant, one bite at a time. Make a plan and solve the problems one bite at a time. As long as you're solving problems you're looking at the finish line. But, thank you.
No... To build this as you have.. you are genius... It is truly amazing..
what happens if you hook up the crank to a diesel engine and make it go super fast?
does it catch fire?
This is amazing. I had started making this from legos, but haven't come close to finishing it.
It is very nice to see that someone else made a real mechanical version of the turing machine tho.
Follow up, I got the one from legos working! It's still not fully done though, but I managed to run some simple programs on it. I will probably finish it next summer.
Once I make a video on it and uploaded it (to another account) I will forward it. Also going to credit this video and many others for inspiration :)
Dude - you are seriously some kind of genius - never seen anything like this - good enough to put into a museum - belongs in the Smithsonian for sure - cheers
Thank you.
i.. love.. you.. who ever you are that made this. its so epic :D and great documentation and sketches, only took a couple min to figure out the workings :D
Wow! Holy shirt! This machine is a MASTERPIECE of design, engineering, workmanship - across the board ASTOUNDING! Superb! Well done, Sir! (BTW - I slammed the "like" & "subscribe" buttons so hard I nearly broke my screen!)
Could we get a breakdown of the subsystems and how they relate?
Thanks for great upload. I knocked a couple these this morning. Then after breakfast spent the rest of the day with me feet up !!Happy days
I've seen similar things that use binary to accomplish a pluthera of tasks. I am disappointed there was not any greater effort put into the communicating of your goals precisely here. You are obviously an intelligent individual and I would love to hear you share in much greater detail! That'd be amazing! I am right about to check out the link you put in the description. Can't wait!!!
I am also saddened to see below so many people insult others who asked to have a more direct explanation I think for people to shit talk down a curious mind is a horrible thing. Asking questions, seeking further explanations on things is wonderful, and is how we all learn & grow. Communication is the key to everything, and I believe some more direct communication would have been wonderful here. And I am proud to see other humans asking questions. It's wonderful! Horay for learning!!
who needs solar flare vulnerable power supply requiring electromagnetic systems when you can make a system capable of universal computation, out of processed organic matter, and power it with yourself, yourself a thinking being made out of processed organic matter that requires processed organic matter to function.
This is the most impressive carpentry and mechanical design I have seen in a long while.
What does it do? Is it programmable? How do you input program and check output?
Thank you! A museum piece of art.
Mechanical wood computer!!Brilliant
Thank you.
so the mind, the intelligent, the thoughts and the spirit can happen on this wooden machine... so amazing :0
Dude... this device is ludicrously cool... congratulations!
This is incredibly impressive for many reasons. As a bonus, the comments section reminded me of a word I've not used in some time: pedantic.
hey, I can't get the onedrive thing to work, it there a google doc or something else I could see?
You made that?!? Amazing, man! Great job!
Holy crap, this is absolutely amazing!
+TheKyshu
Thank you very much for watching.
Holy crap indeed! I wonder how many people are there who understand both the computer science and the woodworking behind this. Very very impressive!
I like how the units on the "tape" are just a block holding a rod with 3 possible states all easily measurable and settable
Looks pretty cool, but i don't understand what it is, what it does, who it works, and what it is for. Another video would be nice to really grasp the complexity of your machine and achievement.
just watch copmuterphile on how turing machines work
A wise man once asked 'So what does it do'. The inventor nodded and quietly answered 1:35
This is freaking amazing. You sir are a (Turing) complete genius.
One little suggestion is adding springs to the cam followers so that you can add a motor to the power input and get a better computation speed
David S.M. run mother at 7Ghz
It's beautifully made, and is clearly performing some sort of logic operation, but a commentary, or notes in the description saying what it accomplishes would have been really good. I tried to follow your link, but it involves opening a new account on Onedrive, and I'm not going to give my credentials to yet another website that may get hacked and lose them for nefarious purposes - not just to see one thing.
This is amazing very fantastic work. I am wondering: what's your feeling for this kind of design to be adapted to more states, you would say: it changes more or less everything and the morphology should be totally rethink, it's possible but with some work, it's in fact quite straightforward to adapt (I am talking about the design step, not the crafting)
Pretty neat design and build , i liked the comment about. The Hamster wheel that was funny i also liked all the different wood species you used The machine looks like something Matthaias Wandel would build as he likes wooden gears and has incorporated them into several projects he has shared on his UA-cam channel
Beautiful, a joy for vision and intelligence. Congratulations, great job!
This should be in a museum
This is just fantabulous. A thing of beauty!
Alan Turing will appreciate if He watched you build a machine like this on UA-cam
сколько трудов вложено блин! Классный механизм.
Well. UA-cam algorithm was right on this video. This is absolutely amazing!
The memory access part is not a random access type (+1 or -1 per each sequence), but a well made Turing machine.
It doesn't need to be to conform to the definition.
awesome! pretty awesome!!! I never thought something is possible with mechanics. Must have been countless headaches to think that out.
It seems your document on how it works is no longer available. How may I get a copy?
Have you heard about the Analytical Engine? It's a computer which is powered by steam energy, was planned to be built in 1837, a hundered years before the first computer was built, but wasn't built due to a lack of budget. Turing also was inspired by Babbage's work. There is a group called Plan28, which their goal is to build this machine.Do you have a detailed plan of the machine described in the video?
Hello. The only thing I have is the PDF listed below the video.
I love how the tape Turing machine has another Turing machine as its control unit.
This is what I want for my birthday
I expect a turing machine to say 'ouch' when I kick it real hard
Very cool. Ever thought of making a mechanical computer like the German Z1. Its based more on rods and the only electrical component is an electric motor to keep things spinning.
Leonardo could have built one of these. And if he had, there would have been a mechanical wood Internet by the time of Newton. And Newton's wmail to Haley would be arriving right about ... now.
So beautiful just, well done! The logic puzzle alone designing that must have been and so beautifully executed!
It is surprisingly relaxing to listen to thing thing clacking.
use a stirling engine, than you havent to turn the crank ;)
this is one of the coolest things i have ever seen in my life (i´m 16)
Are there CAD files to this or can one be purchased, I am willing and may be able to buy this
This machine looks absolutely stunning! I just saw this video and I just NEED to get myself one of these :)
I have a pretty solid understanding of Turing's machine and have good woodworking skills, but your creation just looks so complex and intricate. Did you by any chance ever end up copying down the various parts? If not, what part would you suggest someone who really wants to make one of these start at?
Edit: I got most of the machine parts graphed out, the only part I'm confused on is the reverse. I can see that the metal bar is moved to the right whenever there is a pin in the reverse column, but I cannot tell how exactly that makes the bar that lowers and raises the head use the left gear (egg-shaped thing that pushes it down) instead of the usual right one. Could you perhaps do a top down picture of that region if it isn't too hard?
Thanks for your time, and again, great work!
Hello Michael. I am documenting how my machine works and have completed the tape movement part. It is in pdf format and I can send it to you. It has drawings and explanations of the movement of the tape. I simply do not know how to get the file to you. This is why I work with wood.
Richard Ridel That would be absolutely amazing of you! Could you please email it to me at *********@gmail.com? Thank you!
break the enigma code with this
Fluffy The Despoiler It only has three states, unfortunately
Need to add like a Terabyte of Memory to emulate x86 and then another 10 years of spinning for an answer. Turing completeness is absolute. (With infinite memory)
They did not use a Turing Machine to force enigma codes. It's an unrelated Turing work.
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Ok so the most interesting part of this video is the reading and writing:
- The bits are represented on the chain by the pegs going through the blocks. I think the peg being evenly pushed in on both sides (neutral) is 0 and the peg being pushed to one side (uneven) is 1.
- Between 3:06 - 3:32 we see a total of 4 read operations on a neutral, neutral, uneven, uneven block.
- On the neutral blocks we see the head operate normally for block 1 and block 2, but on the uneven blocks we see the star thing in the middle of the head get pushed to one side on block3 and block 4 at 3:26
Writing:
- The peg in the middle is pushed by some mechanism to move it from uneven to neutral at 2:00 - this is how the, lol chain of blocks lol, modifies state.
Close, but the machine does differentiate between "pushed all the way up" (1) and "pushed all the way down" (b). These are trinary bits, or "trits".
Wow, that is really beautiful.
Go back to infowars.
is you're one drive deleted i want to see how this works but it says its deleted or has some other problem has a
Im really enjoying the pdf on this machine
Thank you. I hope it takes some of the mystery out of what's happening and how it happens.
this is an incredible piece of work!
Parabéns, mecanismo primoroso. Like e inscrito.
When a joiner decides to study computer engineering.
Brilliantly done!
How much time did you spend to create this? Did you using any CAD To design this machine?
So it's quite possible to have mechanical computer... which is absolutely resist to any EMI attack. Nice
there is no computer more powerful than the Turing machine
This is fucking legendary.
looks cool. Shame there's no commentary, 'cos I have NO idea what use this is.
2:20 Is the configuration table the same thing as the microcode & sequencer?
There is nothing new about Binary Digital Logic realized with these 'marble machines'. They have been around since the days of Liebnitz!
WOW! This is something that could have been made by Leonardo da Vinci, imaging how far we might have become today if did.
I can't download the document from OneDrive :( Could you please upload it somewhere else?
beautiful craftsmanship
Next: graphics card made in wood😊 and great job 👍
Now if you made the tape out of a living, growing tree, you could have an actually infinitely long tape!
Reminds me of a thing called clockpunk which is basically steampunk but without the steam, set in the European Renaissance periods and utilises da vinci like mechanisms and clockwork instead.
Make a copy of it and use a motor to spin the crank faster and faster until it breaks
This is a masterpiece
Did you use a lathe for some of those parts? If so then you turned a turnable turntabled turn-operated Turing machine that you turned.
I can't sleep
This is amazing workmanship! When solar flares EMP the earth you are going to save the world.
Ah, a circumlocution engine. Amazing!
Stunning! If you use a Tesla Turbine to power it then you would have a Tesla Turing Machine , lol . Have you ever thought about building a FLODAC , Patent 3190554 ? A digital computer that computes using air to say compute log tables would be one of my favorite You Tubes! I like to think that if Babbage had FLOWDAC tech the pipe organ folks could have make his Analytic Engine for him and Lady Lovelace could have invented COBOL.
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Can someone explain to me what this machine is doing? I didn't understand very well
This is not a Turing machine, because the wooden model can only invert bits or leave them unchanged. But the touring machine can do a lot more. Well done anyway.
Amazing! Literally amazing! 👍
Amazing mechanical energy can do soo much
How to design this system? I just wanna know the process of thinking from start to finish that thing. It's very interesting.
Is turing complete? How many states the machine has?
What an accomplishment!
Beautiful! Hope to see more.
looks amazing but what does it do again?