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    Building The World's First Computer - Greeks, Clocks and Rockets - Antikythera Mechanism Episode 1

    Clickspring

    7 HN recommenders · recommended in 7 months, 2018–2024

    YouTube

    6:53 · 1.1M views · Jan 27, 2017

    The first episode of Clickspring's series on reproducing the Antikythera Mechanism by hand, laying out the plan and the history. The series follows a machinist building the ancient Greek device with traditional tools and methods.

    HN repeatedly recommends the series for its extraordinary craftsmanship and its credible demonstration of how the mechanism could have been made.

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    10 comments from Hacker News

    1. @btownNov 2018· in “Missing Piece of Antikythera Mechanism Found on Aegean Seabed”

      Non-paywall link: [LINK] This reminds me of one of my favorite YouTube channels, Clickspring: an inspiring clockmaker and machinist who's currently documenting a full reproduction of the Antikythera Mechanism: this video . Highly recommend for anyone who is fascinated by the care that goes into handmade mechanical devices.

      Strongly recommendsView on HN
    2. @gus_massaMay 2022· in “The Antikythera Mechanism Episode 11 – Inscribing the Back Plate – Part 1”

      This is a new episode after more than a year. :) I highly recommend this serie of videos about building a reconstruction of the The Antikythera Mechanism with tool similar to the ancient tools. [Warning: It's a huge time sink] Complete playlist: this video

      Strongly recommendsView on HN
    3. @abainbridgeJul 2019· in “The “greased sled” theory of Stonehenge”

      If you want some archaeological engineering theories that aren't obviously wrong, I highly recommend this youtube series about how the Antikythera mechanism could have been made. this video It's the complete antithesis of this pig fat hogwash.

      Strongly recommendsView on HN
    4. @wincyMar 2021· in “YouTube and Patreon Still Aren’t Paying the Rent for Most Creatives”

      If deep domain knowledge paid off on Youtube people like Ben Eater would be a millionaire from Youtube at this point[0], his videos are so cool and great at explaining computing. Or Clickspring, the guy who made the Antikythera Mechanism [1]. But honestly even for me being a software engineer and someone who considers himself interested in this sort of stuff, I look at these pages sometimes out of wonder but I often end up watching comedy videos and stuff like that on Youtube. The algorithm recommends it, and I watch. [0] [LINK] [1] this video

      RecommendsView on HN
    5. @nialoDec 2023· in “Earliest Carpenters: 476,000-year-old log structure discovered in Zambia”

      In case anyone here hasn't seen it, I want to share this very cool youtube series of an Australian clock maker creating a replica of the Antikythera device using only tools believed to be available to the ancient Greeks: this video

      RecommendsView on HN