Ever wonder how computers work? This guy builds one step by step and explains how every part works in a way that anyone can understand. I no longer just say “it’s magic.”
Ever wonder how computers work? This guy builds one step by step and explains how every part works in a way that anyone can understand. I no longer just say “it’s magic.”
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Great series. Watched because it seemed like magic. After watching, computers make sense. I think I could explain how a computer is built to someone else now.
Top post from last year, but I’ll upvote this video no matter what: https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/688eq4/ever_wonder_how_computers_work_this_guy_builds/
Fall-asleep vid. Nice
It may not be magic, but I’ll be damned if it doesn’t involve tens of thousands of control signals.
take some computer engineering classes, or a compiler class
its still magic ☹
good
Wow
[Here’s a super simple explanation of how some of the most basic operations of computers work explained with dominoes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNuPy-r1GuQ)
“Only adds and subtracts” I had to build a virtual computer once for a class, and doing anything beyond that is just insane. Multiplication and division especially are sooo much harder to get working than you might think
That’s crazy
He needs to add cache memory, piplines and speculative execution and explain the Spectre and Meltdown bugs /s
Will watch later. Commenting to save link. Not sure how computers work yet.
Everything in this world is magic, except to the magician.
Try the ios game Human Resource Machine
[If you’re gonna repost, at least change the title.](https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/688eq4/ever_wonder_how_computers_work_this_guy_builds/)
Nice repost, I’m pretty sure this is even the exact same title as last time too.
You couldn´t even arse yourself to make up a new title?
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/688eq4/ever_wonder_how_computers_work_this_guy_builds/?utm_term=553191d0-745c-4a35-b755-d895489f9af3&utm_medium=search&utm_source=reddit&utm_name=videos&utm_content=1
Look, it’s still rocks we tricked into thinking using lightning. Still magic 😉
Nice job. Really cool to see/hear these fundamental concepts explained accessibly and clearly.
Repost…
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/688eq4/ever_wonder_how_computers_work_this_guy_builds/?utm_source=reddit-android
>in a way that anyone can understand
yeah but no. I bet quite a few even doze off after a third of the video. He explains what each part does very roughly but I’m sure if a Joe wants to understand his computer there are MUCH better videos. You should start from the top of the stack for beginners, not the bottom. Program -> OS -> major components such as the RAM and CPU. I mean you don’t go mention the clock and BUS to them on a 4min video.
I’ll just say that is anyone is looking for something like this in book form, check out *Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software* by Charles Petzold.
Ben Eater! I learned a lot about logic Gates and transistors from his videos!
I think he has written a book also
Hey this Ben Eater’s stuff he’s great! Eater has a much shorter but equally solid Kahn Academy style series on his channel about [networks](https://youtu.be/XaGXPObx2Gs). Coming from a chemistry with some biology background it really amazed me how similar this felt to DNA translation.
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Good vid though
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/688eq4/ever_wonder_how_computers_work_this_guy_builds/
Hi
The world isn’t wizard jizz
Thanks!
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a book i would recommend if you want to learn more is [Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software](https://www.amazon.com/Code-Language-Computer-Hardware-Software/dp/0735611319)
it really explains all the small concepts and where all this “computer magic” came from.
[This is a discussion about Liches making a dungeon of undead into a computer. It is accessible, and literally magic.] (http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/12936417/)
I’ve followed his series of videos for most of it, up until the flags register upgrade where I managed to do a similar thing for the conditional jumping. However my version of the CPU is slightly different, the line he uses for the flag register I’m using for an input read, and has been upgraded to have 256 bytes of memory with a full 8bit Program counter and modifications for variable length instructions (eg when an instruction finishes reset the instruction sequence to fetch) and up to 63 instructions (6bit opcode low 2 bits can be used as a parameter on some instructions)
Because of the amount of memory it has, I have come up with a way of loading programs in using a short “boot loader” off an external ROM that can either plug into the IO board or an internal 2Kbytes EEPROM on the IO card with eight 256byte programs selectable with a dip switch
I will be trying some further upgrades, first I would be to tweak my flags register so it is closer to Ben’s design and perhaps add a few more (probably 3) read write registers as I’ve added a 3rd microcode ROM for the sequence reset that has 7 extra outputs I can use for the flags register write and 6 for the read write lines on 3 registers (the registers will be used on a composite video adapter)
Ever wonder how people on Reddit farm karma? This guy reposts the same video with the same name every other month. I no longer just say “it’s magic.”
I’m building this now. It’s fairly straightforward
/r/restofthefuckingowl
My biggest fear is I will travel back in time and have all the knowledge of today’s technology but have no idea how to explain or replicate it. I’ll be written off as being crazy and become an outcast.
Nice
All I can see is a factorio map. You should put more space and in general more resources on your main bus for expansion further down the line. Use more underground belts to reduce spaghetti, other than that this is a pretty good start!
Computer
Yes but will it run Crysis
Tldw. It’s magic!
It’s (still) magic.
I really recommend this guy: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBcljXmuXPok9kT_VGA3adg/videos
Yeah, but they’re still a fad. Mark my words.
At work, Will watch later
This is really cool. I just saved the video to watch at a later time. Great to find a video like this.
must watch later
Dope
Humans made rocks that think. You can’t tell me that isn’t magic.
when does he put the magic in?
I’m sorry that this guy ruined magic for you.
(Saving for later)
This is a word for word repost.
The thumbnail brings back memories from high school.
It’s kind of long, but I’m particular to this explanation by Richard Feyman on how computers work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKWGGDXe5MA
If you get a bucket of snakes, take it one snake at a time. Always a good advice:)
I’m old and lazy. Tell me what this device actually does and I’ll tell you if I want to build it.
I hate this expression, “it’s magic.” Aside from being so narcissistic. This attitude that if one doesn’t understand something it’s magic or god or whatever. No it’s that you or even everyone doesn’t understand it. Instead of writing it off as some supernatural thing, go and figure it out. If science teaches us anything it’s that magic doesn’t exist and we can understand things once not thought possible.
I’m a sucker for bits, buttons, and flashy things. Nice!
The only magic here is reposting the same thread without feeling like a complete nubcake
Seemed comprehensible in the days of 8bit single core cpus running at 1mhz but frankly I’d weepingly shit the bed trying this with modern tech.
This bothered me for so long when I was younger. I understood the concept of binary but I couldn’t figure out how the computer knew what to do with it. For me to finally understand how computers work I had to go back to the old systems before things like pipelining, caching, etc. I think we learned the MIPS architecture in school. Once I finally got that binary instruction sets literally amounted to turning on and off switches for electricity to flow, it finally made sense.
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Nice
r/unintentionalasmr
Judging but the title OP is over 65
how u do this? i like it
my class made us build this, it was fun
I really enjoyed this. Thank you
Need to watch this when i get home
i swear this is a report with the exact same title. damn.
Youtube is really pissing me of with choosing the first available subtitle (in this case, polish) instead of english. Does anyone know how to make english the default subtitle?
It all comes down to Boolean algebra
* people who don’t know anything about computers think they work via magic.
* people who learn about computers can tell you about registers, logic gates, all the way up to high-level programming.
* people who are computer experts think they work via magic.
The battery is the piece that has the magic smoke in it, though.
Thanks for posting !
Still have no idea how computers work.
No it’s still magic. If you aren’t amazed at the level of wizardry involved in creating a CPU, video card, out hard drive (either did state or spinny) you don’t understand jack.
Source: I’m a computer engineer and I think these things are magic.