MAKE presents: The Integrated Circuit

[MozartJunior22]

In my country, they are called "cockroaches".

[Jamieduk999]

good video no negative response from this side but can you elaborate abit on what each pin for example can be used differently to do so many functions for example like timer chip etc and what part these pins play and how you can combine multiple ic's to do bigger jobs etc and explain to what extent these chips can be used and also cover the fact that software can help program these chips using roms and stuff. thanks

[CesarRdMRO]

OHHH IC what you did there hahahahaha

[FTLsFINEST]

5:55 am...!

[zongivila]

@FTLsFINEST no,no,no it's 5:24 am :)

[cristianNOOBtUber]

cant u use a doide to prevent this from happening? 2:49

[guyver280z]

Clip your nails son!!! Lol

[Pegasolta1992]

did u just say jeffrey dahmer ! he is a serial killer xD

[MrPlakjeham]

right?.....right!

[pinochska]

at 0:32 windows screen saver  lol

[sepia2008]

omg i was going to say hey it's agent smith....and then i see the 2nd from top rated comment =)) .....not fair :(( =)) cool video btw <3

[castelinop]

awesome exactly the type of video I was looking to watch.

[MozartJunior22]

In my language, ICs are called "cockroaches" because they resemble a bug.

[ironshootajay]

wtf oscilloscope = clock

[rodsiq14]

cave johnson on his early ages :) don't know who this is? google for portal!!! :)

[DactaDork]

how did you make your oscilloscope into a clock?

[f0ckt]

I'm more impressed by your sideburns

[barcha28]

BioExplorer (for biosignal analysis) doesn't run on Mac (shame on them). You're only getting 60Hz noise though...

I like that! Did you build the amplifier? Are those ECG electrodes? Have you solved the noise problem?

[barcha28]

BioExplorer (for biosignal analysis) doesn't run on mac. You're only getting 60hz noise though...

I like that! Did you make the amplifier? Are those ECG electrodes?

:D

[QuentinLogos]

@Deutschdude100

So what? You can't run Mac on a Windows.

[Deutschdude100]

haha he is running windows on a mac

[YoyobobHippo]

ICs ar awsome!!!!!!!!!

[GW1OII]

He should demonstrate good ESD practice, that's more likely to kill most electronic devices. 

[GW1OII]

Great Video, But Lame running M$ on your Mac.

[mickycheese27]

"dummer spread his very smart idea....."

[mindstormsabrewin]

The education system in America is DESIGNED to make students discouraged and lose interest in the topics taught. Through mindless repetition and disinterested teachers, entire generations that should be exploring their own intellectual horizons are condemned to be empty mediocrities that just put in their 40 hours a week in some shit job. America is at the bottom of the ladder in education in the industrial world because it is by design. The next generations are being sabotaged by miseducation.

[gohan100100]

@mindstormsabrewin: Where did this rant come from?

[mindstormsabrewin]

@gohan100100 LOL! I guess it was the beer. I STILL mean it though. If more teachers were as good as this guy, this country could actually save it's next generation.

[turf7227]

I personally love Collin's Lab. I learn more from one episode than I do in a year of school.

[stijnhelsen]

@turf7227 Then you should probably go study something else :D.

He does make nice videos though.

[turf7227]

@stijnhelsen Well by school, I was referring to high school(physical science, etc.). Which is largely irrelevant to what you need to know in the real world. They "teach" the same thing over and over every year. Collin's Lab teaches me something each episode :D

[bohdan1997]

Could you do a video on how the transmitters work in a remote control system?

[g3rrar1]

are integrated circuits the same as microprocessors???

[SpaceCredits]

Thank you!, dudes at make at this dude, can you Number these or add 'parts' not sure where to start/finish - will subscribe to mag, thanks

[Slench101]

The IC... I see...

[Vim281]

You've got a lot of junk in your trunk.

[19xXJohnnyXx95]

I love this!



[seekerphn]

Agent SMITH

[humza6951]

R u Electronic engineer???????

[andrew19k]

Oups thought this was about Integrated Waveform (SATCOM). Anyways, good video.

[sciencething0101]

0:35 he has a mac with a windows background lol

[nathanrfisher]

@sciencething0101

Yeah. To make apple computers useful you need to install windows on them lol.

[ox141jf]

one fact about circuit that is never told.

ALL integrated circuits and mot other run on smoke

if the smoke escapes , it pretty easy to assume that your circuit is dead

[GW1OII]

@ox141jf You must understand the Knack ;-)

[ox141jf]

@GW1OII the knack being collecting the smoke and injecting it back in? after replacing every chip that may look broken but isn't, they are just cheap and look broken?

[GW1OII]

@ox141jf Don't forget the mirrors the smoke conceals.

[TheSaltysack]

u r the mAN

[dancdow]

HAHA! 0:32 windows on a mac!

[AxelTiger]

Please dont ever stop making vids! these are so helpful for beginners to understanding what half society takes for granted and would be fubar without!!!

[TheSaltysack]

im new i get that ic chips are chips with any other piece like diodes and resisters but are these chips programed or made to work a type of way or their just fancy for small resisters and other compenets in a big block im new and im a little lost

[oliverkhoo]

nails................

[a2304]

Most helpful video I've seen. Tyvm!!!!!!!!!!!

[thehotsixer]

strange video, this guy needs to attend to his personal grooming more and spend less time playing with chips.

[Electricsrb]

3:18 is that the prototype for the midi-vox kit for the arduino?

[misterfixit102086]

a mac with windows xp. very nice

[wecantsee]

right!

[schnappy00]

Holy shit your oscilloscope is a clock.

[98JMA]

@schnappy00

How did he do that?

[koppadasao]

Looks like this was an instant where it was smarter to be dumber.....

[ThisIsInvisible]

lol keep pressing 7 ;))

[profvip]

You are really stupid ;I'm also an engineer and research assistant in my university

But the science make me more close to religion and make me sure that I'm so small

in the world

Not as you told ; please check your brain.

[nikonfseries]

theese videos are facinating

[MultiJohn12321]

3:05

[Rubdos]

Get a PIC, =p No Arduino ;)

[yotamarker]

you Fing C unt, so many time i look for how to build electric components dor real and i fall to your videos that explain nothing !

all you show is stupid parts you bought or found in the garbage.

[hasnachos]

@yotamarker ur a fucken idiot. dont post ur filth on youtube. it just shows how incredibly stupid u r. run into a knife u fucken idiot.

[yotamarker]

@hasnachos what airplane landed on your mother ?

[Cokecanninja]

I loved these videos, then I saw the Mac computer you were using. USE LINUX!!!! Or at least Windows!!!!!!

[LauxHawk]

3:06

[MaenAghazaleh]

is that an arduino microchip you were playing with?????

[Dark0Lord7]

@MaenAghazaleh The game? It was just an electronic circuit. With some ICs too.

[cencalspyder]

your sideburns make wolverine jealous!!

[ThePhalcon2600]

These electronics videos are awesome!! Please make more!!

[alexhwarang5]

at 0:35 his mac's screen saver is the windows one

[1xDRCx]

@alexhwarang5 if you have an osciliscope you would probabaly know,

[Dark0Lord7]

@alexhwarang5 It's a virtual machine.

[happygamestvfun1]

lol he has windows on his mac i wonder why

[AxelTiger]

<3 smart people

[trelokamenos]

OMG its agent Smith...

[Rubysh88]

i'd love have this guy's desk with all his stuff :D

[earthviz]

I love your video series about electrical components. It has taught me a lot! I have one question. How did you read brain waves in the beginning? I mean, what software and hardware did you use?

[94vujke]

when are you going to talk about the crystals? and keep up the good work!

[griffgriff100]

Why does it have the windows xp screen saver on a mac at 0:34

[JinzoDefiler]

@griffgriff100 Either he is running a virtual machine or using boot camp to boot into windows.

[alquiora]

Oh WOW agent SMITH from THE MATRIX!

[crusiatusblack]

I wanted some more info on IC's, I got a bit in this video, but still, I'd like to know more. These makemagazine videos are very educative, and perfect for schools!

[bif0978]

This guy should be a school teacher because he explaines everything quick and in detail im 13 and i understand everything not like teachers dont know how to explain shit and always keep old shit on the wite board which makes it even harder to keep up with wats is going on. video is 12/10 awesome =D

[vdub350]

I love the way you look...

like a cool mad scientist

[databert]

i wouldn't say that an IC is only based on transistors mabye a CPU you could say are based of transistors because in an CPU there are really alot of transistors but an IC could contain resistors and even inductors too. If you look at the schematic in a datasheed of an IC you could see that you could build that by normal electronic parts but it would be too big for our modern world think of a mobile :)

[quepexdamn]

windows xp on the mac?

[crash0510]

HEY MAKE Guy. Tell us, and also I 've been wondering. I hope you make enough money while playing with all of that electronics. ?

You see, what is the point in getting yourself surrounded with cables wires, I've got similar setup, and now I'm actually envious of all of your gadgets. But then, what the heck is it all for, should I involve myself further into the electronic bliss, or get down on it

[crash0510]

ICs are better than fresh baguettes

[thewii552]

it`s electroSTATIC not MAGNETIC discharge! (ESD)

[TheMakut]

Can anyone please clarify for me, how an integrated circuit reacts to Binary data (Which is essentially timed electricity bursts).

I mean, it's just a bunch of jumbled up metal! How can it possibly know what to do when a certain pattern of electrical signals is inputted into it? Is it magical? Does it have a brain of it's own?

For example, if I wanted to tell the IC to solve the maths problem 2+2, how in the hell does it respond to those electrical signals, and how does it know the answer?

[molinobeer]

@TheMakut

Man, i remember being like that, very intrigued about it. But now i know the answer to all that questions, and it's so easy, but i'm too lazy to type a text explaining it to you... sorry

[TheMakut]

Haha man you're killing me!

Can you at least point me in the direction to find out how it works?

I am sooooooooooo confused haha. It's the one thing they didn't teach me in computer class. They just said "Computers work by using zeros and ones". I was the only one smart enough to actually question HOW exactly, but the teacher didn't know.

[CrazyChronicHydro]

@ TheMakut

aO4Bz2z69Ys search that in youtube and watch it, it explains transistors and transistors are a hugeee part of how a CPU works, go off of keywords from that video and you can figure it out, you seem pretty intelligent

[nicholo1234]

An IC is basically a row of transistors. Transistors act as a switch in which values of input voltage can be chosen such that the output is either completely off, or completely on. This on or off position is analogous to 1 or 0 ie. binary the most basic language machines understand, binary then gets translated to a higher level language in order to make programming easy. Before the adoption of IC, computers used switches in vacuum tubes to create a similar yet epically less efficient effect.

[TheMakut]

Thanks for explaining to me :) But I still cannot comprehend how the transistors can "think" and "respond" to electrical signals. I mean, it's just a bunch of transistors! How in the world can a bunch of transistors solve the problem 2+2? It just doesn't make sense to me. (I understand that binary signals are simply voltage bursts, and all that.)

[nicholo1234]

You are over thinking this, just imagine a light switch turning on and off, now think of morse code and the way you can communicate with either short or long bursts. Those on and off positions can be made to represent any number, letter, color etc. It's not that the transistor is thinking it's that it is creating an electrical impulse which can then be interpreted by the machine as either 0 or 1, programmers then use higher level languages to interpret and make use of these patterns of 0 and 1

[TheMakut]

@nicholo1234 So... the IC does not perform the calculation? The higher level programming languages do? So... the IC is like a morse code operator? It just relays the message?

I'm sorry if I'm frustrating you :P I'm trying really hard to understand. Could you provide an example? Like, start with the electrical signal, then follow it step by step, through the IC, where does it go, what does it do? You don't have to if you don't want to :P Thanks again

[cristoretornebiblia]

Its simple, see my favourites they is a Lecture by MIT in fact its a whole course you can watch for free over twenty lectures and the teacher is the best in Electronic Engineering he is from India. Lec 1 | MIT 6.002 Circuits and Electronics, I think the question you are refering to is covered from lecture 5 to 7

[TheMakut]

@nicholo1234 In short, what I am trying to understand is what physically happens, not what the software does. So, what literally happens to that electrical signal when it is sent through the row of transistors, and how does it know which transistor to go to? And how do the transistors know how (and where) to relay a binary code (electrical impulses) to, for example, the hard drive?

[nicholo1234]

Several transistors form a circuit which can be turned on or off like a light switch. Eight switches comprise an on/off pattern known as a "byte". The patterns are then used to code binary information inside the computer. Twenty or thirty transistors can be embedded into a chip which acts like a super amplifier. This is known as an "Operational Amplifier". The circuit calculates the differences in two input voltages and amplifies the result. Transistors are voltage difference calculators.

[TheMakut]

@nicholo1234 Ohhhh I understand a bit more now :) I think I need to research transistors more, then it might become clearer.

Thank you very much for your help :)

[nicholo1234]

@TheMakut

Heh, yeah, the explanation is kinda simplistic but the subject is so complex and difficult to explain, especially here in youtube comments ;D. I think you should study electrical engineering! It's probably the only way you'll get a thorough explanation to your question. I can just imagine the future of computing being infinitely more complex with the combining of quantum physics and miniaturization. Scientists have already been able to store memory in the nucleus of an atom!

[ubuntututorials]

@TheMakut

A transistor controls a signal with another signal. Consider that you have a voltage signal, and a control signal. When either is applied very little will happen (ideally, nothing), but when both are applied, you get AND logic, i.e. both signals have to be present to produce a good output. This is a fairly shoddy AND gate, as it will be affected by current flowing through either input, but demonstrates how a transistor can be used to decide something.

[KaslarProductions]

@ubuntututorials I like your screenname..... I think you could have been a tiny bit more clever and named yourself ubuntutorials...... I just think it rolls of the tongue better..... :)

[ubuntututorials]

@TheMakut

A transistor controls a signal with another signal. Consider that you have a voltage signal, and a control signal. When either is applied very little will happen (ideally, nothing), but when both are applied, you get AND logic, i.e. both signals have to be present to produce a good output. This is a fairly shoddy AND gate, as it will be affected by current flowing through either input, but demonstrates how a transistor can be used to decide something.

[Rauxiz]

dude u have grose nails

[ccrimsonfox]

great video, but gahhh cut your nails

[Kl4pp5tuhl]

Is, say, a computer that could be 4 years old by now, be available with everything in it (minus hard drive) on a chip?

[fegolem]

Almost. SOC (System On a Chip) devices are pretty common. Usually used in dedicated devices like routers. I'm sure there are some high powered ones too.

[Kl4pp5tuhl]

Cool. Would love to see a passively cooled laptop someday. With an SSD, it'd be the most silent pc ever. Imagine that, no rotating parts.

[icyfyer]

@Kl4pp5tuhl I think what you are looking for is known as a netbook. For instance, my Dell Mini 9 uses passive cooling and a 4Gb SSD. There are no moving parts in it at all.

[Kl4pp5tuhl]

Awesome.

[Mushketer888]

atmega8-16pu :D

[ronimacarroni]

how do they make all the little transistors that fit inside the ic though?

[qhoa1385]

DANG!

[I3L4NK]

are you using general-purpose electrodes? How are you connecting them to the computer? What software are you using to read them?

[MayarO1313]

The only missing term in this lesson was LSI, or Large Scale Intigration, which is what is used in CPUs and such. Still a great video article, and Collin is a great teacher, I am so loving this series!

Thanks for uploading this!

[Boztalay]

@MayarO1313

Actually, we're on to VLSI and ULSI (very- and -ultra large scale integration) at this point.

[MayarO1313]

Yep, we're heavily into alien tech these days...awaiting crystal storage and transporter technology ;)

[cobrachoppergirl]

All primitive stoneage sticks and rock tech compared to what Aliens are using.

[UntouchableX82]

do you think its a coincidence that whenever ppl use those sticky head things that they have no hair in that particular area

[retards587]

@UntouchableX82 well im not sure. that could be the case. or, more likely, maybe people dont like getting their hair ripped out....

[soapandwafflesrule]

@untouchablex82

no not really

like if you crack you head open ur gonna need to shave so the doc's can operate

[howtoguy17]

boo!

[schwarzemilch]

I want that brainwave reading programm!

[collinw24]

Its a E.E.G machine.

[schwarzemilch]

Ok. Then I want that E.E.G machine! I love the graphics it produces.

[kisatis83]

Awesome video about ICs. But, hey dude! Aren't you Newton from Man In Black?

[CarpaceEater]

to me, he looks like an agent from "The Matrix".

[DemonHide]

I wish you coulda smashed the broken one open so we could see what was inside. Well, actually, I can do that with my own chips. Nevermind.

Anyway, what's the need for that absurd number of transistors? What's the benefit? More processing power or something?

[lawizeg13]

Yeah, the more transistors, the more it can process at once, which means the faster it will be.

[cerealguy500]

Basically, the more transistors you have, the higher the functions you can perform. So basically, increasing the number of transistors does increase the processing power.

[XxnEr0xXxMaNexX]

dude U explane it really soothly ! pretty nice :)

PS (and a little offtopic xD) I Love that song that Make presents clips always start dundun tada dundan tada xD ROFL

[SuperDonster]

Man, you explained everything so easily. I thank you soooooo much!

[gbmodern]

That was the best explanation of an IC I've ever heard! Now those little black bars don't seem so scarry and compalicazted!

[c130josh]

Thank you sooooo much!!!!!!

[clearmenser]

@chimmyanne feel free to apply to MAKE as an editor or copywriter or director. Good luck.

[Jallandhara]

@chimmyanne Collin's mannerisms are part of his personality. He's just becoming more and more bitchin' with each passing day.

Sorry for the almost year late reply kekekekek.

[gettingplastered]

@chimmyanne It is a little frustrating...it's like "Spock....we've got.....to put.....this circuit....... together!" Feels like a mix of Batman & Captain Kirk. "Still ....great.....use......of information ........ Boy Wonder.."

[sabri1rk]

this video is awesome, great , superb .

[capamagic]

haha osciloscope clock!! xD!!! nice!

[happygamestvfun1]

@capamagic how did he do that?

[TurtIedd]

Ya your cool.

[artysm7]

your mum thought so.

[gaussman08]

cuz he 's not a nerd like you

[cyrixproductions]

go to hell idiot, he owns!

[wiz2111]

i replied to capamagic, who doesnt know about engrish.

[artysm7]

easy.

[frogprince81]

i think he is a little high

[digitsync2]

Great intro! Those good old days, when you can still hack electronic down to the basic components and fix stuff. Now, electronic stuff and computer so small and cheap (made in 3rd world) not even worth the time to fix it, except take a peek at the IC.

[ajboomboom5]

2:46 no offense but don't you me electro static discharge?

[FezTube11]

Lol, true. Static does the job, but electromagnetic forces could ruin them, too. Of course, that's really rare, but I think he meant static, haha.

:)

[computec1993]

whats the song called beginning at 1:40 ?

[VeXorian1337]

The 555 timer is not revolutionary and NOT necessarily an oscillator! It's 3 types of multivibrators in one chip - bistable, astable and monostable with easier setup. You can make either of them with a simple Schmitt Trigger NAND gate chip.

[fragileliving]

His using windows get him!

[websurfer1232]

he was running windows in a mac. look at the bottom. there was thoose icons

[DeltaPhi79]

No he wasn't. Look at the top left. APPLE ICON. Icons at the bottom are called APPS THAT ARE SITTING ON THE MAC OS X DOCK.

[laythrain]

in the words of Jarek4: "piss off mactard!"

[adamjamesm]

Does anyone know how to read your brain waves? I'm curious about it...

[gonepishing]

is it just me or does this guy resemble a somewhat nerdier Mr Smith?