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.
Subscribe to Matt's channel so you don't miss his Dobble video:
https://www.youtube.com/user/standupmaths
Here's my greedy cup siphon video:
https://youtu.be/Cg8KQfaT9xY
Image credits:
Zoom in on transistor - NISENet
Moniac - Matt Brown
Moniac - Paul Downey
Moniac - Tiia Monto
Moniac - Marcin Wichary
You can buy my books here:
https://stevemould.com/books
You can support me on Patreon here:
https://www.patreon.com/stevemould
just like these amazing people:
Matthew Cocke
Glenn Watson
Joseph Rocca
Jol van der Loo
Doug Peterson
Rashid Al M
Paul Warelis
Will Ackerly
Heather Liu
Alnitak
Twitter: http://twitter.com/moulds
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stevemouldscience/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stevemouldscience/
Buy nerdy maths things: http://mathsgear.co.uk
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.
Subscribe to Matt's channel so you don't miss his Dobble video:
https://www.youtube.com/user/standupmaths
Here's my greedy cup siphon video:
https://youtu.be/Cg8KQfaT9xY
Image credits:
Zoom in on transistor - NISENet
Moniac - Matt Brown
Moniac - Paul Downey
Moniac - Tiia Monto
Moniac - Marcin Wichary
You can buy my books here:
https://stevemould.com/books
You can support me on Patreon here:
https://www.patreon.com/stevemould
just like these amazing people:
Matthew Cocke
Glenn Watson
Joseph Rocca
Jol van der Loo
Doug Peterson
Rashid Al M
Paul Warelis
Will Ackerly
Heather Liu
Alnitak
Twitter: http://twitter.com/moulds
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stevemouldscience/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stevemouldscience/
Buy nerdy maths things: http://mathsgear.co.uk
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