CORRECTION: as a few viewers have pointed out, I somehow managed to draw the NOT gate incorrectly every single time that it appears in the video. The NOT gate has a small circle at the output, just like the other inverting gates (NAND, NOR, and XNOR). I drew a non-inverting buffer every time I said NOT. I want each one of my videos to not only be fun, but also to potentially act as introductions to the topics they discuss for anybody, so I hope this doesn't take away from the value too much! Let me know if there's any other mistakes you find! (there are probably a lot of mistakes related to gameplay...)

i guess using time bombs results in...volitle memory

Zelda: Link You must find me! Link: Hold up, just making a computer real quick

The real promising part is whenever someone mods the game to greatly increase the maximum amount of fuse items you can have. Also maybe the distance at which items are despawn. Then we will truly see crazy stuff.

In Gemiyik shrine, there’s an electric motor that CAN be powered by shock emitters. And you can smuggle it out of the shrine by fusing it to a weapon and then taking the weapon to a goron kid NPC in Tarrey town. so, an electricity-to-rotational motion energy conversion is possible. you can even make copies of builds containing the device using zonaite and the autobuild feature. I think that could be used to make something more substantial

My favorite computer in a game is Rust’s Pong. Using the electrical system pieces, someone made the game pong. It’s insane on how complex it is, and to think 1 missing wire would ruin the whole thing.

In case the max number of items glued together can be changed by simply changing some variables in the game code, it might be possible to mod TotK on a switch emulator!

2:22 At the risk of being That Guy... a bare triangle is just a buffer, and you need a small circle at the output point in order to make it a NOT gate.

3:05 actually, just a NAND gate on its own is already a functionally complete set! You can create any digital logic using just NAND gates. by extension, AND and NOT are also a functionally complete set

I'm sure Nintendo knew after Mario Maker something like this would happen with TotK

Look for the electric parts you can steal from shrines. There's an electric motor in the Gemimik shrine that can be activated by current, I think you could make something better with it. Plenty of conductive cubes, plates etc. Fuse the motor to a weapon and break it at Tarrey Town, or attach an apple and save it with autobuild. Good Work!

Bokoblin: "my Lord, there are news regarding the hero" Ganondorf: "so, another one of my minions has fallen. I can't wait for our battle" Bokoblin: "that's the thing my Lord, it seems that the hero has abondend the quest to save the world and makes calculators now" Ganondorf: "he's making WHAT?!"

Small correction, boolean algebra is not sufficient alone for turing completeness. you need some kind of feedback loops, so for example balls falling are not turing complete because they can only go downwards. same with dominoes.

I just wanna point out that the effort you put into this is appreciated, and the results you got are a great proof of concept! No time spent learning is wasted, regardless of the outcome, which was still decidedly impressive given the constraints you were given :)

You could use the electricity idea. Shock emitters essentially work the same way as the electric weapons in BotW so you could use springs as the bits then have the shock emitters attached which will go into a metal weapon. Then if the electricity hits the metal it’s a 1 and if not it’s a 0

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THIS HAS BEEN PLAGUING MY MIND SINCE THE GAME CAME OUT THANK YOU

I'll admit i didnt fully grasp half of this, but this is the first time ive had someone explain binary and computer stuff in a way that i feel i can easily understand, i have a much better idea of how it works now. thank you :D

Holy shit Mechanical computers are one of my favorite things in the whole world

This past semester I took a computer architecture course and although a decent amount of things in that course went over my head, I still do remember a decent amount. As soon as you got to talking about circuitry I perked up because "hey i recognize that stuff!" and had flashbacks to the times i drew crappy diagrams of multiplexers and ALUs in MS paint.

Thanks for putting so much into your videos. They're really fun. Congratulations on the channel growth as well- can't wait to see where you go.

People like you simply astound me. I've never understood how computers work but you demonstrate your knowledge of it so effortlessly. I know that I'll not ever be able to comprehend computers, they're just not my thing, but I admire the work you put in to understand them

This is such a high quality video. Well done!

Can't wait till we can run doom in totk

You may not have succeeded in your goal, but I want to thank you for the really good description of how a computer uses logic gates in combination with Binary to be able to add numbers. I feel like no one has ever explained it that simply before. I know it obviously gets much more complicated from this point on, but I never really had any understanding of how it worked. However, your explanation was so clear that I literally thought, “have I not understand this before?” lol.

Youve quickly become one of my favorite youtubers dude, I just finished AP physics and have been having a blast watching you and learning about some of these topics ive never even thought about. Keep doing you and have fun with zelda (i know i am)

I am delighted to have stumbled upon your channel today. Not often do I find such a gem of a channel on KZfaq. Looking forwarding to diving into your content.

This is my favorite channel! Your videos are always very interesting. Keep making them.

This was fun! Your videos have a unique charm in them that i really enjoy! Thanks!

Always excited when you upload. I love watching science and math channels on the whole, but you have an eye for finding big ideas in everyday life which is always so cool to me. Good stuff, good stuff :)

This was super interesting. First time I've seen your channel. Subscribed!

Love the video I’d be glad to see more like this mixed in with your normal content

your explanation of base 2 was so perfect and quick i wish i had it when i was a tutor for computer architecture. great video.

It is a bit different type of video that your regular content. I thorouhgly enjoyed the video. I enjoyed the personal touch that you added with saying that you tried to finish this video as quickly as possible before somone else makes a video on this idea. Nice video man!!!

As a CS major, this was the first thing that came to mind when I got Ultrahand, been waiting for a video like this!

"If this is your first time watching this channel I'm warning you that most of this video will be explaining the math and engineering of digital logic" And that's it, I'm sold and now subbed.

Wait... The Math and Engineering of Digital Logic isn't Physics? Lies. Remember when digital logic was 5 volts high and 300-900 millivolts low? Pepperidge Farm Remembers. (I'm saying 3.3v high 0v low makes me feel old.) 🤣 That NEC Intel 8048 clone is an example of 5 volts high, zeroish/negative low. (3.8-5v high -500 to 800 millivolts low to spec)

Hey, just a tiny correction: a triangle with a small circle to the right of it is a NOT gate. But if it's just a triangle, it's called a BUFFER which just repeats whatever signal it's got. Buffers are generally used to make sure voltages aren't changed upstream of the logic flow. The way I remember it is all gates with the small circle to right (NOT, NOR and NAND) are inverting their output. Hope this helps :)

This was so good!

as a zelda fan and computer nerd. this video is a perfect marriage of the two. and is also the first video that ive seen of yours. thanks for doing what you do!

Man, I will be honest with you, i have no idea about the science of computers and i also didnt understand half of the stuff, i even skipped a lot throughout the video however I highly appreciate your work and way how you explain and describe things in detail! I came for Zelda, and stayed for your chilled nature, even tho i didnt understand anything. You're doing a great job! Keep it up pal

Awesome video!!!

I must admit I am an absolute philistine when it comes to the art of the modern computer. I had no idea what logic gates were before watching this but you managed to explain everything in a way that I, a layman, was able to understand clearly. Bravo for this. You have earned yourself another subscriber. 👍🏼

i applaud your preliminary efforts

The reveal on your adder was hilarious and amazing! 😂

Great video, I like your approach to making subjects educational. Plus the parody music was great.

I saw somewhere a use of lights, mirrors, and wheels connected to obstructing planks to create a calculator. Maybe that's the future of this niche.

Enjoy your game, brother, thanks for the vid!

So cool! I appreciate your work Subbbeded

From here it's really just a matter of waiting for someone to find a way to lift the limit on items being binded together so I wouldn't expect it to take too long

Something that could help solve the problem of the amount of sticking thing together is to use stabs to atach them to the wall and every single digit is just a separate building

I didn't expect this information to be useful, but now I have some idea of how to use logic gates in games like Oxygen Not Included or any other ones that have them. Thanks!

Very Interesting video

I've been doing a small hobby electronics project slowly over the past little while. Part of that includes a lot of googling, and despite having all "personalized advertising" related options off, I got recommended this video. I'm happy I found this video, but I'm not happy _why_ I found it.

This is one of the simplest yet easiest logic gate explanations ive seen

Just commenting to boost viewer engagement!!!! (Also love the videos keep it up 👍)

bro we gotta learn this stuff for my exams in like 3 days this video is perfect!

Having just come off a college course about logic circuit basics, this video dropped so much dopamine going "Hey I recognize this! Yooooo" Gonna have to check to see if my launch day Switch can handle TotK (or if I can get the money to buy TotK in the first place), because it would be so fun to email my professor for that class in the middle of the summer like "hey so for fun i remade a few assignments from the class in a video game how many brownie points is that"

good video, you earned a sub

As far as the melon not rolling, there are orbs you can get from the Gerudo area that are part of a quest, or you can find a sphere in a shrine and attach it to something so it goes into Autobuild, then autobuild outside the shrine where you want to set up your computer. You might even want to do it in a shrine if there are useful parts there, and you won't get interrupted by enemies or blood moons.

When TOTK is more of a coding language than HTML

Since I found out that springs could be toggled it just brought so many ideas into my brain using them because I figured you could use them as bits.

This is excellent

great video

Currently in tech school for R and F transmissions and just went over how to convert binary, hexadecimal, and decimal. So this video is not only entertaining it’s studying

This is the type of content I signed up for when first using the internet!

finally physics for me... great video!

You may be able to make a computer by using the electric fan parts? They're a pain to build with since you need to smuggle the parts out of a shrine with Fuse instead of opening Zonai capsules, but you might be able to use the wind generated by them to push an electric emitter into another fan.

That wiring at 5:35 is glorious

Cool video

oh I thought you were talking about legend of zelda (the first one) and was impressed

This inspired me to try this myself, but I couldn’t be bothered to finish so I‘ll just post how far I got and what I found and move on with my life. You can use wheels as gears for this to create a mechanical version. An AND gate is two gears, both powered and with four paddle each, interlocking and turning in the same direction. If one stops, both stop. An OR gate is two gears, both powered and with one paddle each, turning a third gear, unpowered (use a wooden wheel) and with four paddles, into the same direction. If at least one is turning, the third gear is turning. If one of the powering gears is stopped by another gear, it won’t hinder the turning of the wooden gear as the singular paddle will be out of the way. I haven’t been able to find a NOT gate however that relies only on gears and does not need to be reset manually for a new input. For input methods there are a few. For one, I recommend ramming the gears into the ground using these zonai spike thingies. You could attach them to a large platform but that‘ll limit the number of attachements you can have. The inputs themselves need to be seperate from the gears anyway, and you could just power gears to serve as input directly. Alternatively, you could attach two trampolines to a spike (activate one and leave the other deactivated), ram that spike into the ground next to a gear and immediately have an input signal that can use one extended trampoline to stop a gear to give an input of 0 while that same trampoline being deactivated gives an input of 1. Additionally, the second trampoline offers the inverted input without needing a NOT gate, so that’s useful, although still limited in usage. Lastly, you could attach one of these stand up manequins to the outside of a wooden wheel and attach that wheel to a spike, so that the activated spike would raise the manequin into a potential spinning gear and stop it while still allowing the gear to continue spinning once the spike is deactivated again. One issue with the gear system is backflow. If a gear is blocked down the line, it’s difficult to prevent that blocked gear from blocking other gears that came before it, and into a parallel signal line, ultimately sending a 0 where a 1 should be sent. Unfortunately I don’t yet know if this can be prevented with this method.

A valiant effort, hope you enjoy the game now. (:

That is the neatest breadboard project I've ever seen

You can use cooking pots as a the middle part of the scales. Like you can make a teetertoter or see saws with them.

This reminds me of Kerplunk, that was a fun game i played as a kid!

There's a game on steam that I really enjoy, it's called "Turing Complete" and it's a great way to learn the basics of binary computer logic hands-on! You're basically building a whole damn functioning computer from the ground up as you progress through the puzzles. The explanation given in this video is pretty good but I find that you gotta play around with those funky little gates yourself to really understand how they work. It's actually fun, I promise, if you are the type of bird that would end up in a comment section under a video like this, this is the kind of game you'd enjoy

this is the first thing i thought of when playing. glad it didnt take long for people to pick it up

I just want to say thank you. I have zero experience in math in this implication and I came away from this video really interested in it

i am waiting patiently for the day that someone figures out how to break the fuse limit. i've been discovering my inner enginner through this game. no computers yet, but i've been building multi stage rockets, gyroscopic seating and vehicles you can't fall out of, tanks, weapons of mass destruction, cars that can freeze and drive on lakes, etc. in making these things, i cannot tell you how many times i've run into the build limit. it's put a damper on so many ideas i've had, and i can see that's the case here too. can't wait to build a log tower that reaches from the depths the skybox lol

now thats a banger of a title

very cool

terraria's logic gates were the first in game logic system that I was able to create consistent and robust systems with. I cant imagine trying to cludge together one like this.

you can use fuse to take a ball from a shrine and then go to Tarrey town to unfuse it, allowing you to use a perfect sphere instead of melons or anything else

You can get around gluing all the boards together (and reaching the max) by attaching a stake to the back of each board and stabilizing everything that way.

Very funny that you talked about the electicity idea bot working then showed a shock emitter which would let the electricity idea work.

To get around the fuse limit you could attach a stake to the platform and have it attached to the ground instead of the part below it. Then you would just have each panel be its own separate component.

Your description on how a half-adder makes an adder which makes a bigger adder was genius! It made so much sense even though I already knew the premises... Now I truly get why quantum computers would be terrifying... Right now, everything can be encrypted because we know how much locking power is unbreakable with our current amount of "adders" in the regular computers we have... But if each adder could be used as it's own mini adder by breaking down smaller than 1 (.478 or .00000561) basically giving infinite calculation power within each quantum adder... That was probably off in my description, but that was my train of thought...

Something I'd like to add as a computer engineer who loves esoteric computing like this is that if you can create gears and axels you can make much more sophistocated mechanical computers than the one-way kind of thing you get with the methods shown here. With differentials (like you'd find in a car's drive train) you can add/subtract rotation, and with a uni-directional gearbox (either with a tilting pair of gears or a worm gear that can move itself between two gears) you can take an absolute value. Combining these operations in the right ways yields any gate you can think of. There're a ton of other ways to do rotational logic too, but real-world examples are hard to come by because mechanical digital computers are absurdly large for their capability.

i was really expecting a korok crucifixion drawing as the example for “things that will generally help us in the game.”

The nice thing about Boolean algebra is that it's an algebra that is to say a and b = ab; a or b = a|+|b [where |+| is the non carrying addition operator] and not a is 1-a.

I know it's all new but smtg tells me totk won't be made on totk ........ I'd be amazed to see plain old Zelda running from these logicgates there's definitely quite some limitations EXCELLENT VID THO!!!❤ loved it man✌️✌️

i already knew about logic gates before watching this video, but this vid really helped me understand HOW things such as a half adder are made by using the truth tables funny how i'm just eating mac n cheese watching a zelda video and learning things that I didn't quite realize when taking logic or match classes in college lmao

13 days late because I recently moved, and internet companies are evil (recently as in over a month ago). BUT HOLY CAMOLY is this an amazing video and so much fun. Im sorry it was annoying to you, I mean, I have trouble making the simplest redstone contraptions, but to me, who loves but marginally understands computer logic this is like one of the coolest things I've ever seen. Cant wait for the next regular video, and, hopefully its not out before July 7th (the day I... hypothetically... get internet...)

your breadboard work is beautiful, mine looks like a rat's nest in comparison

One of the first things I tried to do was make a device that counted up in binary. The idea was to have a laser attached to a wheel, followed by a row of lasers with lights on them, each laser pointed to the next. Alas, lasers do not trigger other zonai devices. 😢

This could not be more on time, I have a computer science a level in 2 days

this video literally went over what took half a year in my first year of uni and is somehow more comprehensive

This is the first I've heard of Minecraft computers. I will now have at least 12 more unfinished and then abandoned Minecraft projects. Thank you

I’ve been working with the electric motor and battery to run circuits that charge a battery at the end. That way when you turn off the machine, the charged battery will turn its motor signifying the result of the computation.