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When binary math, marbles, and woodworking collide

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Now that would be a good tool for elementary/middle school math teachers.
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I thought the same thing when I was first watching the video.
 
i could have used that in my coe classes at college. It certianly would have topped my profs binary wrist watch.
 
I emailed that link to my professor from the CS class I took last semester. There were several people who couldn't grasp the concept of binary. That short vid should confuse them even more!
 
Originally posted by: EvilYoda
Nothing too difficult to understand, but that is awesome.
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Yeah it's easy to understand, but what are the chances that it would even occur to you to build one? That's what's cool about it. No one told this guy to make a marble powered calculator. :thumbsup:
 
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: SlitheryDee
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: EvilYoda
Nothing too difficult to understand, but that is awesome.</end quote></div>

Yeah it's easy to understand, but what are the chances that it would even occur to you to build one? That's what's cool about it. No one told this guy to make a marble powered calculator. :thumbsup:</end quote></div>

The first mechanical computer was build hundreds of years ago, just looking online reveals dozens of other people who have done similar things, it certainly isn't a novel idea to go out and build one. Maybe nobody on this site has build one before, but I'm sure there are tons of people here who could easily construct far more complex mechanical computers than a simple adder given the number of engineers on this forum.

EDIT: theres a cool one from history that is fully programmable, has floating point math, registers, etc.. all with tiny gears and such.
 
Originally posted by: BrownTown
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: SlitheryDee
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: EvilYoda
Nothing too difficult to understand, but that is awesome.</end quote></div>

Yeah it's easy to understand, but what are the chances that it would even occur to you to build one? That's what's cool about it. No one told this guy to make a marble powered calculator. :thumbsup:</end quote></div>

The first mechanical computer was build hundreds of years ago, just looking online reveals dozens of other people who have done similar things, it certainly isn't a novel idea to go out and build one. Maybe nobody on this site has build one before, but I'm sure there are tons of people here who could easily construct far more complex mechanical computers than a simple adder given the number of engineers on this forum.
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Yeah, but how many were marble powered? The concept has been done and done again, but here it is in a DIFFERENT form. Why would you do it? Why not?
 
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