Pneumatic Wooden Logic Gates
summary
The talk describes building pneumatic logic gates (AND, OR, NOT) using organ-valve-like components—cardboard capillaries, membranes, wooden pistons and laser-cut parts—to make a pneumatic calculator prototype. It explains practical issues encountered (small control flows, signal loss, need for signal restoration), shows several working chained gates with pistons used to restore full signals, and notes full binary addition is still a work in progress, with historical analogies to early computers like Atanasoff–Berry and ENIAC.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Mechanisms magic
- 3:20Valve operation
- 7:13Pneumatic calculator theory
- 10:04Pneumatic transistor
- 13:12Logic gate assembly
- 16:50Piston solution
- 18:42Wooden prototypes
- 19:45Pneumatic calculations
