Why’s it look like that? It’s cool, but creepy at the same time.
this post was submitted on 26 Sep 2023
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Fluidic logic is very, very cool. It's basically a low-bit computer, but using transmission fluid instead of electricity
This is indeed insanely cool, there's an animation of an oscillator there that is remarkable. And there's no moving parts
Yeah, shit's wild. The transmissions here aren't true fluidic computers, because they still have solenoid valves controlled by an external computer, but anything with that much plumbing is basically magic
well damn. That reminds me of the classic two BJT oscillator but it's just fluids
Mechanical (?) computers sound very cool. So it like directs flow in a way that resembles binary?
There's still actual solenoid valves controlling the flow (acting as the logic gates), the voids you see in these transmissions are the paths the fluid takes, same as traces on a circuit board or chip.
That’s really cool, thanks for the explanation.
It's not nearly as interesting as the pneumatic computer stuff, but on the EDM machines I use at work, there is a lot of pneumatic robotics going on due in part to the presence of water and the fact that significant portions of the machine are electrically charged under regular operation. There is a bank of something like 20 solenoids at the back of the machine with a bunch of airline tubes running to various linear actuators all over the place to open / shut valves, or rotate components using rack and pinion mechanisms while the whole assembly is both wet and electrically charged. There are very few electronic motors on the thing aside from the main servos and pulleys..
This is all controlled electronically by the CNC controller and various circuit boards, but theoretically similar mechanisms could be driven directly by outputs from a pneumatic computer.
That sounds gorgeous. Wire EDM? EDM is wizardry. I've watched videos but it still just seems magic. love machines so much.
Air muscles are another really neat mechanical construct.
beautiful designs for my future machine cult
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Didn't know about the demonic chip conspiracy, but now that I think about it, the straight lines and circles do loosely resemble the markings in sigils. We can't have nice things because the designs resemble runes from 600 years ago. Too bad!
Modern PCBs don't really have through hole connections anyways. It's all square surface mount pads now.
they still have vias though
Have you ever seen RF electronics before? They create features by changing the shape of the signal path on the PCB. It what some people call RF Voodoo because the type of stuff we are dealing with is all written in a book of black arts somewhere. Even the guy in that video does not know how to explain it real well and he is an electrical engineer.
EDIT: Another subject that I cant get out of my head along with what you posted OP is nomograms. Check out this video about one, and if this pic makes your head hurt just wait until you get into the rabbit hole of computational devices before computer chips took over the job.
I don't know if it's a trypophobia thing or what, but those images make me EXTREMELY uneasy.