Marble adding machine

[onthedriftvids]

There are only 10 types of people in the world: those who understand this video, and those who don't.

[Tossphate]

Tremendous

[aleblok70]

can this machine go to Facebook?

[1addictedgamer1]

after the day of the calculators were invented. . .

the creator : damn this marble adding machine! or else i would be the one who invented calculators. . . ~sobbing

[DocSt0rmy]

i keep throwing money on the screen but nothing happens

[YTMrVulcan]

@DocSt0rmy Why ever would you do that?

[LimitedWard]

extreme abacus.

[Xgoldenxeyex]

The fuck was that... The fuck is this?

[TheBill3333]

With a series of valves and tubes, this machine could be run pneumatically.

[TheBill3333]

I am impressed with the concept, and impressed by the builder. Too bad the audio is hard to understand. Closer mic?

[jeanlucncoelho]

Now make a difference engine with marbles

[KillerGuitar007]

Computing would have been a lot more fun if we had this in class

[Hassanspy]

Nyc work...

[hipertrofia]

I loved this video. It would be amazing if you managed to make a multiplying or even dividing machine using the same principles. You could solve your little segmentation fault beyond 63 with some memory unit coupled to your machine. Great video!

[UberMan5000]

This is a cool way to visualize how computer data works.

[ilikecoding]

Is it possible to make a mechanical computer from something like this?

[RoxasKH56]

@ilikecoding Of course.

[MetalPheonix]

A simple and elegent way of explaining binary to children.

[porous999]

awesome!!!

[zeratul575]

alright im bored and this is a binary related vid so...

heres a nice little math problem for you :)

1111 1111

1111 1111

1111 1111

what is the total value... in hexadecimal?

[IRanOutOfNameIdeas1]

@zeratul575 10,000

[ForceRain]

This is glorious.

[zeratul575]

i so wanna build this ASAP i love binary and all things computer binary and hex are what im good at now right now trying to master logic gates and even more complex computer language stuff

and also this vid is very true its a calculator a true calculator but y didnt you go for the full 255? couldnt you have added 128 and 64? and opn that note... can you make a logic gate out of wood??? heheh i love your vids and im a loyal subscriber

[Matthiaswandel]

Six was bits was enough to illustrate the concept. There's other problems with adding bits - you will see once you built it.

[zeratul575]

@Matthiaswandel maybe but your right i will see when i do build it...

also binary really is fun to do and your an EXCELLANT capenter and engineer your stuff always amazes me

[thetetrisgod5]

But... can it blend?

[E1craZ4life]

@thetetrisgod5 The machine or the marbles?

[thetetrisgod5]

@E1craZ4life Both

[E1craZ4life]

@thetetrisgod5 They already did marbles.

[appleormac]

i would make a huge one that goes to 1024 or 2048

[tucense]

Lol I want to see a binary marble decorder!

[UndeadPleco]

This is how your computers look on the inside guys... Wood and marbles :)

[sofaki91]

that's amazing!!!! :O :D

[Rubdos]

63 + 1 = marble overflow

[Rubdos]

@hardstyle905 yeh, offcourse :p flagged

[gizmoguyar]

So I was thinking the other day about binary and such. And I was thinking "What about computers that use the entire range between 0 and 5 volts. Think about how incredibly powerful they'd be. And now after watching this I'm thinking "Could this be made to use variable weight marbles analogous to base 10 or infinity?"

[Rubdos]

@gizmoguyar variable voltages would need a comparator on each end of the cable/databus, it'll conflict with 0 line etc. Not usable. Sorry. That's the reason they invented binary

[gizmoguyar]

@Rubdos That's true of base ten, but I'm talking about using the entire range in an electrically analogue circuit. It does of course present major problems, like degradation of data. I know it's not like no one has thought about this before, and come to the conclusion that it just wouldn't work. But I still find it interesting to think about.

[Rubdos]

@gizmoguyar Yeah, I thought of it too. But I think it'll be much more difficult that just adding another bit the the 64bit system. Double the amount of data that can be transmitted ;)

[hofer1]

@gizmoguyar What you said is what we engineers call analog electronics. It dominated the market during a long time and most of its applications are being replaced by digital circuits.

[gizmoguyar]

@HisMight1 @cmburke7

010010000110000100100000011010­000110000100100000010101110110­100001100101011001010110010100­100001

[E1craZ4life]

Kind of makes me want to make a decimal adding machine.

[cmburke7]

01110100 01101000 01110101 01101101 01100010 01110011 00100000 01110101 01110000 00100000 01101001 01100110 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01100111 01100101 01110100 00100000 01101001 01110100

[crkhek57]

$20 that he's Canadian.

[batfly]

You have a beautiful genius mind. :)

[mattblair92]

This is awesome, nice work.

[tonybeir]

what a useless machine. this could never have any use as it cannot be technically miniaturized, computers such as the one we use today for youtube uses many times the number of rockers or switches, it could never be made into a chip.

[Sarahmint]

@tonybeir but it CAN be used to teach the Steve Jobs of tomorrow how computers work

[yanging]

@tonybeir It's made for demonstration, not for computerized and specialized computation...

For that you would need a datapath, memory, i/o, control, and, if you want to make it more complex, microcode, an ISA, and whatever other higher level languages you might desire.

[Jremmiah]

@tonybeir its function is for demonstration. now ur anteater bath video on the other hand... is useless.

[ATCSharp]

63 + 1 = STACK OVERFLOW!!!!!!

[umairrrr]

You're a clever fucking dude.

[TheIncredibleD1701]

That's pretty neat.

[snellekogel3]

unbevielable this got dislikes....

[Cheejyg]

Neat. I like! =)

[MingUnrockable]

How can I change decimals into binaries quickly then?

[victoraudias2011]

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[SeaEagleAdmin]

Awesome.

[stan007g]

im too high to acutally understand this but it seems rad !! xDDD

[larrybud]

Dear God people, the reason this machine is important is because it is demonstrates some of the lowest level logic gates, which is the basis for digital electronics (this means your computer!) And without that logic, you wouldn't have the computer you're watching this on now.

[cogman11]

@larrybud The lowest level of logic in a computer is not addittion. Multibit addition is a circuit that is comprised of several logic gate that handle things like carrier over etc. While addition is one of the simpler circuits, it is still a circuit.

The lowest level of logic gates are AND, OR, XOR, NOR, NAND, and NXOR with the least complex being the NOR and Nand and the most complex being the XOR and NXOR.

[amj0o0d]

it's amazing but you can make another one , the same of this but like a mirror design of it

so it will be more exciting

[madmandan1000]

i swear i put 1,000 vieews into this because of me as its his voice

[heavyq]

I wish this is how we learned binary in Networking classes :(

[ICBMcow]

That is sooooo epic!!! I NEED ONE!!!!! can I buy a premade one or do i have to make it?

[RemixPicture]

@yenamarre100 I never said there was anthing wrong with the inventor or the invention. I simply stated that this is really simple stuff to learn without this machine.

[christianoersted]

Great!! Very good. Thanks.

Regards, 

[MaxikingNimero]

63 + 1 = computer says no

[MadnessHacks]

@MaxikingNimero

It says Zero actually. :P

[DarthLucario]

This is pretty cool, but.... how did I get here from My Little Pony?

[4z4i]

@DarthLucario Probably like this:

My Little Pony: Ponies Don´t Do Religion

Family Guy - Getting along without religion

This appears in suggestion .__.

[DemonZonkey]

@4z4i Me too.

[0000001100000]

@DarthLucario ...you fell asleep on your little pony and your little pony brought you here..hahahahahahah

[TheAgentbrady101]

This is actually pretty cool

[FailLikeAChamp]

interesting, too bad you have to know math in order to use the machine.

[jokerfacehro]

und jetzt das zweierkomplement zum subtrahieren benutzen :D

[darthvatrayen]

@jokerfacehro The video is in English. Why are you even here watching if you comment in another lanugage? Troll.

[SchwimkenWibbel]

@darthvatrayen yeah...germans are not allowed to watching english videos because they don't understand, right? you don't have to comment in english?

[Matthiaswandel]

I got no issues with german comments. But when people comment in hebrew or or whatever language, I never know if the comment is appropriate.

[darthvatrayen]

@SchwimkenWibbel They're not allowed to make comments in German. Or else the police will come in and have to take them away,

[SchwimkenWibbel]

@darthvatrayen so funny. Du bist so witzig, dass ich es kaum fassen kann.

[darthvatrayen]

@SchwimkenWibbel Well believe it, sonny!

[SchwimkenWibbel]

@darthvatrayen okay peewee!

[darthvatrayen]

@SchwimkenWibbel Okay strawberry!

[SchwimkenWibbel]

@darthvatrayen Sweet!

[darthvatrayen]

@SchwimkenWibbel Sour!

[SchwimkenWibbel]

@darthvatrayen Bitter!

[darthvatrayen]

@SchwimkenWibbel THE GAME

[SchwimkenWibbel]

@darthvatrayen ...just stupid

[darthvatrayen]

@SchwimkenWibbel It is a very complicated game.

[SchwimkenWibbel]

@darthvatrayen yeah probably too complicated for me, right?

[darthvatrayen]

@SchwimkenWibbel Probably not. You seem a very intellectual fellow.

[keisreeman]

I subscribed 64 times!...oh, damn!

[dinokrk]

man,it's awesome idea,but it's shame becaose we are in 21 st :-( and everybody using calculator,but raly great idea :-D

[TheBoogeyman78]

At the end, you still have to add, so what is the point of all of this?

[oRenj9]

@TheBoogeyman78 Because you only have to add the end result. This may appear useless for trivial problems like what he has shown, but when dealing with reliably adding large series of numbers together, this type of machine would be extremely valuable.

[yazdmich2]

@TheBoogeyman78 its binary, the base code of computers, something every geek/nerd interested in computers should know

[edencardim]

@TheBoogeyman78 you only have to add in order to convert the result to base 10, which is the number system typically used by humans. He could probably automate the conversion with another wooden device, but maybe he was lazy or something.

[nullpointerE]

Dude! I would pay a lot of money for this!

[bayblazemax]

@NilsKills Exactly my thoughts o.o

[ThinkTank255]

Very neat! Nice job!  Now if only we could do an analytical engine in wood and marbles....

[Hypastpist]

i bet the Sumerians already thought of this

[Minsheme]

If you've ever played a game called Powder Game, I'm making this within that game just now.

[spoogegoat]

It took me a wee while to suss out how the rockers toggle. Because the balls have nonzero radii, each ball's first point of contact is on the other side of the rocker's pivot from the side the rocker is resting, so the ball imposes a torque on that rocker. That the rocker yields so easily keeps the ball from bouncing up, at least until the rocker is tilted enough so the normal force of the rocker's top directs the ball in the right direction.

[XFierceDeity]

thAT IS EPIC



[nuklearmarine77]

the guy sounds like dr.evil from austin powers

[commander3046]

i lost track of what u were adding together because i was mesmerized by the machine

[RammaJamma22A]

i subscribed, then unsubscribed, just so i could subscribe again

[Dandaldaks]

Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[skyarsalan]

wow!  Amazing!

[poyt46]

nice

[jorasave]

if you cover the mechanism it will appear like a magic adding machine ;-)

[wolfywox]

This is amazing! Wonderful invention. :)

[Deathjailer]

Man all your contraptions are so awesome, subscribed right away

[crazydude40405]

THIS IS GOOD You SHould Pattent It

[NickJFerrara]

you'll get my attention when it can multiply

[victoriatoma]

...huh?

[psychastheneia7]

It might be totally trivial to understand binary addition but this video is extremely cool for explaining Marr's levels of analysis!

[boom3rang]

Aah, I was just wondering why computer registers wrap around as they do.

[robinjam304]

@boom3rang 'cause all decent CPUs are powered by marble logic.

[KittenCollision]

mind officially blown, I want an abbacus now

[usa1327]

wow... so i totally understood this video of the thing way easier than i did in the explained more lol.. i had no clue what it was in that one but then i watched this one

[Rubdos]

To understand this, your IQ should be longer than 8 bits :D

[Matthiaswandel]

As long as one of the bits is used for sign, this is probably true.

[Rubdos]

@Matthiaswandel An IQ of b_1111_1111 is just 63 ;) 9 bits should be enough for us :) b_1_1111_1111 = 127, and for the really smarties, you've got 10 bits: 11_1111_1111 = 255. Smart guy :)

[bpnilsson]

@Matthiaswandel Who needs the sign?

[davdua1991]

@Rubdos you just need 3 min in any introductury course of informatics, atleast here where i live... easy mode, 1010010 + 10011 = 1100101, i think :)

[ninjaquest]

This is a superb little machine, and a great way of explaining binary addition. Have you considered making other versions, for instance base-10 or base-16? I'm not quite sure how you'd do it, but I bet you could :)

[kinmanyuen]

awesome

[RemixPicture]

It's a cool invention, but these things are so basic that anyone who needs this to understand must have an IQ lower than 80.

[Matthiaswandel]

Just read some of the comments....

[rafael44p]

where is 64 bit xD ?

[superundies1]

i can make this to educate my 2 year old cuzin

[Coastergeekperson04]

Take that Bill Gates!

[abbythenintendogirl]

Thats mad cool!!

[chen680]

GENIUS!

[malakianissick]

fuuuuuuuuuuuuck that

[TheBlkhawk11]

mindfuck :o

[cachoengineering]

marblelows!

Great way to teach binary system!!!

[cachoengineering]

marblelows!

[lordofkrunsull]

111 justin bieber fans

[vecovecoveco]

Amazing! :)

[VenomDkoc]

@u2beegees yeah thats when he grabbed a damn calculator

[0Umbrakinetic0]

Dude, divide by zero! D:

[Smonjirez]

Too bad it cannot divide by zero...

[SupauuMartyio176]

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[u2beegees]

Did anyone else notice that  pen appear at 1:56?

[atila511]

Cooolllll!!!!!!

But I think as our friend Tiberian said below, it would be interesting to incorporate a mechanism providing the result in decimal numbers.

Are there any plans to do this?

[hewtoi]

i have no idea wtf this all means but i just like the fact that you can put marbles through it

[TheConcierge15]

I like this

[tiberianfiend]

What good is an adding machine that makes you add to get the results?

[BieberFever9951]

thats quite cool

[9guitarkid4]

marble hornets.

[BlaqueAudio]

@9guitarkid4 lol i JUST got done watching 36. which seemed boring pointless ):

[SuperJkl00]

i really love this idea and would love to make it can i please have a measure drawing if not could u tell me were i can get them plz write bak!!:)

[RandomDudeStuff]

Who needs computers!! Mechanical adding machines never get viruses hehe

[andresferral2]

@RandomDudeStuff What about Termites?

[RandomDudeStuff]

@andresferral2 True! I hadn't thought about termites! lol! But the way to avoid them doesn't have to involve periodical maintenance/update fees!

[PseudoFanboy]

YOU ARE A FREAKING GOD, DUDE!

[DickHead69able]

01110100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01100011 01101111 01101111 01101100

[DickHead69able]

@DickHead69able 'tis a secret message! x)

[DurzaGaiden]

So it's a 6-bit binary step counter?

[idonthaveanameyet2]

so binary?

[Rowantjuuuh]

genius

[wojtasskorcz]

Overflow simulation included? Man, you're genious!

[xpez]

computer

[Krondelo]

Very genius contraption here.

[IXScroungerXI]

I need to start using this, instead of a calculator. Just to fuck with my room mate. >:D

[EmceeProphIt]

This is really creative AND functional for people who program. :)

[GreenShark4]

I'll stick with a calculator, thanks.

[ikeboywonder]

64 is one louder. this is awesome

[jlowe424]

108 people *really* need to add past 63.

[meekojoon]

pointless machine?