I Made A Water Computer And It Actually Works
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Published 2021-04-23
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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All Comments (21)
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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.
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I love how an overflow error literally results in an overflow of water.
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Man, seeing the siphons finally pass over the threshold, and start dumping out their contents... is so satisfying
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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!
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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.
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I think this would work a lot better with mercury; it’s not as sticky.
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It's weird seeing my same minecraft Redstone circuits made from water and actually understanding what's going on
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A memory leak 😂 I've watched a lot of your puns Matt bit I've never laughed this hard!
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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.
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"I have a water computer" "Cool, do you mean water-cooled?" "No"
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You've got a memory leak 😂
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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.
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"Wet Inside" LOL, this made my day
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The real question is: "Can it run Doom?"
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"have you tried turning it off and on again?" "Yeah standby" tips the computer upside down
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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.
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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
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Gamers: I have liquid cooled pc Steve: I HAVE LIQUID PC
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Wet® Inside
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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.
