Son of the MK Area Calculator

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  • Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
  • More about the MK Area Calculator, invented in the 1950s by Roy L Kuykendall and Warren Martin of Albuquerque NM. It's an electronic area measuring overlay, theoretically similar to the dot planimeter. Thanks to Bob Martin for all the info!
    My first video about the MK Area Calculator: • MK area calculator Rev...
    MK-related downloads: faculty.fairfi...
    Green's Theorem picture by Wikimedia user Cronholm144, CC-BY-SA-3.0
    commons.wikime...
    End song inspired by "Hotter than a Molotov" by The Coup.
    Chris Staecker webarea: faculty.fairfi...
    #spy-n-shoot

КОМЕНТАРІ • 29

  • @timetraveller6643
    @timetraveller6643 Рік тому +41

    finding area with a crayon: Colour in the area with your favourite crayon. Weigh the crayon before and after. Compare the weight loss with recorded standard areas. Pat. Pend.

    • @wompastompa3692
      @wompastompa3692 Рік тому +5

      I'll buy 50 gross.

    • @Ryptun
      @Ryptun Рік тому +2

      Does it come with a weight?

    • @timetraveller6643
      @timetraveller6643 Рік тому +2

      @@Ryptun -- Standard crayon weights available for premium customers. Specify colour when ordering.

    • @timetraveller6643
      @timetraveller6643 Рік тому +1

      @@wompastompa3692 -- please specify; Metric gross or Imperial gross?

    • @hughobyrne2588
      @hughobyrne2588 Рік тому +10

      Finding the area with a shredder: color the shape with black marker, shred the paper, pulp it and mix until a uniform grey color. Use a light meter to determine the precise shade of grey, thus giving the area.

  • @johnsrabe
    @johnsrabe Рік тому +10

    Your videos are not silly, if silly means inconsequential. Your videos connect humans with humans, and humans of today with humans of the past. This is vital for us to continue to be human. Thank you.

    • @DonnyHooterHoot
      @DonnyHooterHoot 2 місяці тому +1

      No, they are quite silly. Signed: Monty Python.

  • @colinstu
    @colinstu Рік тому +3

    I like how the other ear's K becomes an M.

  • @unspeakablevorn
    @unspeakablevorn Рік тому +14

    Nowadays electroplating onto flexible materials is pretty common! My keyboard, a bog-standard cheapo Logitech, uses several sheets of the stuff that make contact when a key is pressed.

  • @lavuy6744
    @lavuy6744 Рік тому +8

    cool that they got in contact with you.

  • @alanesq1
    @alanesq1 Рік тому +7

    A replica of the pea-shooter has to be done!

  • @dlt4videos
    @dlt4videos Рік тому +1

    Another gem 💎

  • @melody3741
    @melody3741 Рік тому

    The guy in the book was 100% BLAZING across the paper

  • @crowndotm3866
    @crowndotm3866 Рік тому

    We're just some sort of math nerds out in California, but we love your work!

  • @Nashvillain10SE
    @Nashvillain10SE Рік тому +5

    This is gold, Chris...GOLD, I TELL YA!!! 😀👍

  • @nathanielvirgo
    @nathanielvirgo Рік тому +3

    Maybe the author of that book had one with the finest grid. You'd have to move the stylus slower if the grid is denser, and 25 impulses per second at 100 lines per inch makes for a maximum speed of 1/4 inch per second.

    • @ChrisStaecker
      @ChrisStaecker  Рік тому +8

      And I assume that the counter itself wasn’t the only rate-determining component in there. (But it’s 100 squares per square inch, which is only 10 lines per inch)

  • @klave8511
    @klave8511 Рік тому +2

    Thanks for letting us know about the contact and for filling in a few more details. Green’s integral has me thinking, maybe integrating the function which you would have to draw by hand, sort of analogue integration?
    I think that the tingling sensation from the pen was the inductive kickback from the counter solenoid, even a low voltage can give you a fun sensation when the contact to an inductor is broken and an actuator that can count that fast would have a hefty solenoid.

  • @melody3741
    @melody3741 Рік тому +1

    “My own, the rest of it too, cause mine is broken” 😂

  • @ro_yo_mi
    @ro_yo_mi Рік тому +5

    An absolutely delightful video, as per usual.

  • @bdot02
    @bdot02 Рік тому +2

    It's always a treat when a new video from you comes across the feed

  • @NiksSofa
    @NiksSofa Рік тому

    I get the finger tingling on macbooks that are pluged in, so that seems to be a tradition with american hardware.

  • @omerfaruksimsek1238
    @omerfaruksimsek1238 6 місяців тому

    working principle is similar to the manual colony counter 60's.

    • @ChrisStaecker
      @ChrisStaecker  6 місяців тому

      Never heard of that before- I agree it looks similar! Thanks for the tip-

  • @hughobyrne2588
    @hughobyrne2588 Рік тому +2

    A less careful presenter would have read the instructions verbatim, and said "100 squares to the inch". Nice.