Fibonnaci on a Marble-Powered Computer

less than 1m read

·Nov 10, 2024

This is the Turing Tumble. It is a marble powered computer. So sorry nerds, it's kind of a jock thing now.

What you are watching is my solution to a puzzle posted on their forums. I have programmed the machine to output marbles according to the Fibonacci sequence. So, as you can see, so far we've got one blue, one red, and now we've got two blue.

Next up, we should have reds coming down. How many reds? We'll take the last two values and add them: 1 plus 2, so three reds. Here's the second red. The third red should trigger a blue to fall by hitting that left lever. Nice, we got it!

Now, how many blues in a row should happen? Well, we should have two plus three, so five blues total. Here's the second blue. Oh, by the way, if you're watching this on YouTube, YouTube Shorts can only be a minute long, so it's going to cut halfway through. You'll have to go to TikTok, Instagram, Facebook. Sorry, guys, but we're up to the fourth blue. This fifth blue should trigger red by hitting that right lever. Here it comes. Red!

Now we got eight reds in line because 3 plus 5.

The Music of Physics | StarTalk

Principles for Success: “Struggle Well” | Episode 8

View All

Why Rich People Are Cheap

It’s a cotton stereotype self-perpetuated throughout history: rich people are cheap. We’ve seen this demonstrated and exaggerated in everything from fictional characters like Mr. Burns from The Simpsons and Ebenezer Scrooge from A Christmas Carol, all the…

Mr. Freeman, part 24

… Not bad … But I did not say that money is a bad thing. I respect every religion … as servile, as it is. Oh … yes … you do not know … Only calm down, stop splashing with your spinal cord. MONEY IS GOD. And you believe religion is Christianity, Buddhism,…

Does money make you happy?

Does money bring happiness? Listen, I’ll tell you one thing: it gets rid of a lot of problems that can cause unhappiness. If there is any popular opinion that says you don’t need money to be happy, of course, you don’t need money to be happy. There’s a l…

A Mexican Wolf Pup’s Journey into the Wild | Podcast | Overheard at National Geographic

Foreign [Music] This is what it sounds like to explore New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness on horseback. On a recent assignment for National Geographic, I got to venture deep into the Gila with a photographer, podcast producer, and a backcountry guide. The Gila …

Worked example: Calculating mass percent | AP Chemistry | Khan Academy

So right over here, I have the molecular formula for glucose. And so let’s just say that I had a sample of pure glucose right over here. This is my little pile of glucose. I’m not even going to tell you its mass, but based on the molecular formula, can yo…

5 AMAZING Experiments and "Sauciest of the Week" !

Hey, Vsauce. It’s Michael with two big announcements. Count them, two. First of all, there’s a brand new episode of Vsauce Leanback that you can start by clicking the link at the top of this video’s description. This week the topic is crazy and classic s…

Fibonnaci on a Marble-Powered Computer

More Articles