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    Mechanical circuits: electronics without electricity

    Steve Mould

    1 HN recommender · recommended in 3 months, 2022–2024

    YouTube

    19:22 · 8.7M views · Oct 27, 2022

    Steve Mould shows Spintronics, a set of mechanical components such as resistors, capacitors and transistors linked by chains, that give an intuitive feel for how electrical circuits work.

    HN suggests it as a vivid, hands-on way to understand circuits, including for a blind child learning to program.

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    3 comments from Hacker News

    1. @gtm1260Jan 2023· in “Ask HN: Alternatives to Scratch for a blind child?”

      I saw the code jumper tech at a conference once, it was actually really thoughtfully done, I had no idea it cost 1k though! One other option I've seen is this Spintronics platform: [LINK] I first saw it on Steve Mould's youtube channel, they're basically mechanical circuits and it looks super cool. this video

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    2. @elil17Dec 2022· in “Making a Traversable Wormhole with a Quantum Computer”

      >By studying this quantum theory on the processor, we are able to... probe the dynamics of a quantum system equivalent to a wormhole in a model of gravity. Not a real wormhole, but rather a model of a wormhole which they say has the same dynamics. A bit like this if I'm not mistaken: this video

      CitesView on HN
    3. @aziis98Dec 2024· in “Against the Hydraulic Analogy”

      Related video by Steve Mould about "Spintronics" [1] Mechanical circuits: electronics without electricity this video [1]: [LINK]

      CitesView on HN