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I Made A Water Computer And It Actually Works

Steve Mould

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Steve Mould demonstrates how to build logic gates and a binary adder using water siphons.

The first 200 people to sign up at brilliant.org/stevemould/ will get 20% off an annual subscription. 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: youtube.com/user/standupmaths Here's my greedy cup siphon video: 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: stevemould.com/books You can support me on Patreon here: patreon.com/stevemould just like these amazing people: Matthew Cocke Glenn Watson Joseph Rocca Joël van der Loo Doug Peterson Rashid Al M Paul Warelis Will Ackerly Heather Liu Alnitak Twitter: twitter.com/moulds Instagram: instagram.com/stevemouldscience/ Facebook: facebook.com/stevemouldscience/ Buy nerdy maths things: mathsgear.co.uk

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What people say. Recommended as a fun and visual demonstration of how logic gates and binary addition work using fluid dynamics.

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Steve Mould presents water-based logic gates Alternatives to transistors. Is it easier than synthesizing via ISE? ;-P [video https://preview.redd.it/acnsw84ozyu61.png?width=1215&format=png&auto=webp&s=a870eefb0026bf6a3df12f669260f0d5ca01561a

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On “Could you make a computer with just nature?”

Gravity's the main force at work. Here's an example. There's also people making computers in Minecraft using Redstone. As long as you're able to model some basic components such as a NAND port (which is functionally complete) you can make a basic computer with just about anything.