Computer Architecture Explained With MINECRAFT

Minecraft's Redstone system is a very powerful tool that mimics the function of real electronic components. This makes it possible to create actual computers in Minecraft using only Redstone. In this video, I briefly explain the electrical engineering and computer science principles behind such inventions.
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[@Codeolences]

Thank you so much for watching and for all the kind comments! If you enjoy this kind of nuanced computer science videos (not necessarily Minecraft-related), consider subscribing! This would mean a lot ❤

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[@bogdan_130.]

Explain computers with redstone ❎️ Explain redstone with computers ✅️

[@persnicketyVC]

As someone watching this on 1700's parchment paper I can agree. We need him to explain this on a computer 👌

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[@Bluerim_]

This honestly is a good intro to A level computer science

[@camerontupper1138]

@OnyxtheFolfno he didn’t do this he’s saying it could be

[@_chaozgt_]

U mean electrical engineering right? CS deals with programs and software, electrical/computer engineering deals with hardware

[@t0x1C698]

@@_chaozgt_ Yeah but in Cds if you dont have this kinda basic knowledge, you wont be able to code hardware

[@Big-Chungus21]

@OnyxtheFolfA portion of the OCR A level Computer Science course goes over computer architecture in a way very similar to this video, but in more detail. This would be a very good and fun introduction to that section of the course.

[@Bluerim_]

@@_chaozgt_ Nah, when I did A level computer science the start was mainly learning Boolean Algebra, Logic Gates/Circuits, and how processors understand machine code and need an assembler to convert assembly language into machine code

[@v3ctor1227]

Going to sleep ❌ Watching a guy explain computer architecture with Minecraft ✅

[@doinker81]

real

[@OverL0rd02]

real XD

[@SUS_DeveloperRoblox]

so real

[@lesktv3371]

So so real 😂

[@terrariaplay5779]

it's 2 am and I'm in the bed whatching this video

[@SomeoneOnlyWeKnow.]

I'm a programmer who has an alright understanding of computer architecture, but I've never been able to understand redstone. So this video might actually help me in the opposite way.

[@BloodZangetsu]

Indeed, I knew about the computer part of what he was saying but I actually got redstone knowledge from this video lmao

[@berni2905]

Minecraft has 2 essential logical components - NOT and a diode. If you deliver a signal to the block the redstone torch is attached to, the torch turns off and stops generating signal creating a NOT. Repeaters only let the signal one way but they also work as amplifiers because the signal gets weaker with every block travelled.

[@elijahknox4421]

​@@berni2905repeaters are a real world component. They're used for long distance transmissions like radio to amplify a signal and reduce distortion

[@tainicon4639]

The weird thing with redstone is that a huge fraction of the digital circuitry you can implement with them is contained with in bugs or off target effects of the implantation if the in game components (quasi connectivity being the weird bug that’s most often referenced, it’s a result of the redstone portion of the piston code being copied from doors and the 2x1 size of the door being part of the 1x1 piston which enables signals to propagate weirdly). Essentially as a programmer you should be able to understand all of the redstone stuff easily… you would just need to crack open the jar file and look at the implementation of each block to see the way redstone interacts with it and then treat them as sort of like an HDL language.

[@elijahknox4421]

@@tainicon4639 how do you access the .jar file?

[@privatenoob]

Finally a place where my computer architecture course stuffs come to fruition

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I'm still searching a Place where my chemistry degree come to fruition

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@@obihz2415 we can both combine our powers, with my business degree and your chemistry degree, we'll be unstoppable *wink* *wink*

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[@th3j0t46]

usually that is researched before selecting the degree. or it should

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[@average-arch-enjoyer]

I appreciate the credit. Mattbatwings is amazing.

[@Codeolences]

I totally agree!

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[@Rodrigougarte-g8j]

@@Codeolencesyou also explained it pretty well similar levels I love this video I understood computer morphology

[@kyubroot.]

Bro explained a whole semester of my computer engineering class in one 7 minutes minecraft video😭😭

[@ballsmasher3000]

Thats why traditional way of teaching sucks

[@fatihenisakc]

I am a electrical engineer who completed the first year, and this is a very helpful explanation to me.

[@denis_marian8059]

yep, I am in the same situation:))

[@PrecouisgemL]

‘Very simple’ builds a whole calculator Ok, i hate people who edit messages but, for everyone going ‘its simple to make a calculator’ ik, i create this stuff, it was a funny joke so i said it.

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Abstraction is everything!

[@iPlayGamesX]

Calculators are simple tho...

[@Iamanugget111]

tbh its actually really simple u just have to jave more than 1 brain cell

[@iPlayGamesX]

@@Iamanugget111 Hey no reason being mean

[@ceemeck]

Having 1 braincell wouldn't even let you comprehend this

[@multigamer1383]

Having the stuff you learned getting re-explained in Minecraft is a luxury we do not get to see every day

[@Rainyalley]

Its crazy how went from the invention of transistor to I9 14900K and 2TB memory card in just 80 years

[@johnloydsabino3577]

That's what we call compounding. Not just on money but can be applied to anything. Even Einstein was amazed by the compounding.

[@Attar-w1b]

Just imagine what we would achive in another 80 years

[@moo5434]

Genuinely an amazing breakdown on how computers work through redstone. This is such an underrated channel :)

[@Syshotdev]

Arguably the best video to introduce someone to computer architecture. Awesome visuals (especially 3:00), clear explanations, tons of effort, and in such a short time period! Always what wanted I to make but couldn't get right, bravo!

[@JuanPablo-nt3qc]

Incredible this channel has less than 2K subscribers. Don't forget us when you reach some millions!

[@Codeolences]

Thanks a lot! I won't forget the OG fans 🐐

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[@chloesibilla8199]

Finally someone explained it in a way I can understand in a video that isn't two hours long and broken into seven parts!

[@NAAGAR_2.0]

This guy is truly amazing as he taught us the concept of semiconductors in minecraft🤯

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But can it run doom?

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[@de1sh]

NGL but red stone are fun

[@hanchen267]

“With this, you can automatically collect your crops using water!”

[@SoThisIsMyCat]

"and with _this,_ you can automatically send a nuclear airstrike wherever you want!"

[@nikplaysgames4734]

I’m a computer engineer who’s going into my sophmore year, this is super cool! I’ve always understood that you can use redstone to simulate the components we learn about in class, such as gates, designing an ALU, creating a full adder, and much more, but I never really knew how to actually do it in Minecraft. This is an awesome explanation!

[@mylesandmore0]

Insanely well made and edited, great work! This would have been so useful a few years back when I was learning this lol

[@codenayr7894]

I’ve never actually thought of this-never occurred to me that red stone is literally computer science.

[@Cadlex]

someone give this man an award for explaining something more complex in just mere minutes. ur underrated man. you deserve a subscribe! :3

[@Codeolences]

Thank you!

[@Zsombi1089]

Please make more videos like this.

[@qqmayakashi]

Bro just tought the major concepts of my computer engineering degree in a single video with Minecraft

[@yassinebouderra7329]

You just explained my computer science whole year subject in 7 minutes, that's crazy bro

[@foo6105]

As a computer engineer student, this is a good minecraft redstone tutorial lol Didn't thought you could make literal logic circuit in the game!

[@egii1651]

this video touched me... as a guy who has played minecraft since he was little and is now studying electronic engineering seeing this is heartwarming

[@ArdyneusTheGod]

After my first-year as a Computer Engineering major student, I actually understood the things in video.

[@drakoronus]

HOLY SHIT, I finally get how computers work! Been struggling with this a lot, how binary code gets stored and then used was a mystery. Thanks dude!

[@NutellaEnjoyer-xx]

You have made computers so easy, even a 12 year old can understand it

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[@MatthewElento-vv9sb]

Kinda insane how this explained computers to me easier than anything else. I want to pursue computer science some day, so I heavily appreciate this.

[@f1yEditssX]

5:56 "very simple"

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Hahahhahaha

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This is one of the best videos I’ve ever seen

[@mdmywashere]

such a short video that made everything clear and i'm very amazed by this. keep it up i really like these kind of channels!

[@Codeolences]

Thank you!

[@mdmywashere]

@@Codeolences my pleasure

[@rPenek]

Pro perfectly and fast explained what i have learned in school for half a year.

[@carnosinehobs7759]

This is one of the best videos on computer science + red stone on KZbin.

[@lbgonpokeit]

You are an amazing teacher. The way you break things down really shows how well you understand it yourself. Major props man.

[@bkdotexe]

This video is so underrated. I learnt more from this video than any of my research on computers. I usually dont subscribe to someone just because of one video but you deserve it

[@Codeolences]

Thank you so much!

[@ospectrum]

Props for showing RISC-V assembly as an example :)

[@tainicon4639]

Redstone was my instruction to digital circuits. I built a simple 4 bit adder and a memory bank back in high school (beta 1.7 haha). This defiantly contributed to sending me on the path towards my current work as an engineer and a neuroscientist. Minecraft is quite a wonderful game!

[@danielpalacios2255]

I’m taking Computer Arch and Assembly right now. this video came out at the perfect time

[@SigmaMan1448]

This is actually awesome and explains everything so nicely. You are way underrated and deserve many more subscribers.

[@nicholascardoso4532]

This video came up right after I read about logical gateways. This helps a lot!

[@guilhermefonseca2755]

My computer electronics teacher in 6 months of classes couldn't explain it as well as you, congratulations on the great video

[@JosephMendoza1054]

Computer Engineering student here. This is helpful to our subject. Thank you.

[@anber7506]

underrated chanel for real

[@Codeolences]

Thanks!

[@mattheus1331]

This video is so good! I've been on the redstone community since 2020, and I can say you did a very good job!

[@bocchers.1]

This is literally my whole computer achitecture course summed up!

[@nhensonbass]

pretty much a summary of my first week in digital logic design! thanks

[@EnjoyVoid]

Entire year in highschool in 6 minutes. Amazing video!

[@Codeolences]

Thanks!

[@Brknonmusic]

They ain’t thought me none close to this in high school lol

[@Dwight-o4g]

Where/what is this highschool?

[@prumchhangsreng979]

Ur learned semiconductor in highschool?

[@EnjoyVoid]

The school system in my country works a littl different. The highscool is basicaly 10th to 13th grade in school of your choosing. I went into electric engeneerng school, so majority of what we learn is about electricity. The school also has different branches in the electricity field and I am doing this type od thing. So I am very familliar with boolean and logical circuits. And yes indeed this video is basicaly a 1st year (10th grade) of one of the subjects in that school.

[@lucien-rowan3685]

For me, this video made the basics of computer science look easier than it really is.

[@the_leqend7390]

For a second i thought you said "assembly code is easy for humans to understand", but when i re-watched it, I heard what you actually said, which was "assembly code is EASIER for humans to understand" which is true, but it's still confusing as hell lol

i didnt notice lol

[@originzz]

It is pretty easy to read. I guess it depends on how the instruction set is laid out, but for the most part the only issue is it's damn hard to code with

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[@jeslinmx22]

"it's really quite simple" - mumbo

[@ПростойЧеловек-к8г]

😅

[@abdulsami8512]

really fascinating. i have just read DLD and i have exam till Latches tomorrow.

[@miladmoro88]

0:32 "The next circuit is a little bit more complex." * *literally showing how a redstone calculator works* *

[@Austin_Playz27]

bro its litterally an and gate a toddler could understant this

[@MrChickenD]

Im studying engineering and now everything makes sense! This is what I've been learning since January and I never thought truth tables were related to redstone, now I wanna build a ton of redstone farms

[@nuperjardim]

Loved it. Really thought that you would have more subscribers since the video was so well done. Keep up the good work!

[@FallenSoap90293]

A good revision for the exams thanks

[@sickintergral1535]

Very soothing explanation, very easy to understand.

[@3D-User-64]

The design is very human

[@sickintergral1535]

​@@3D-User-64 , I think we both misunderstood, I really meant it, your explanation is really soothing to listen, i learned a lot. Love the reply.

[@ckai6409]

I’m a comp sci graduate and I learned very little about this stuff while in school. However, the fundamentals of computer architecture does fascinate me, and your video was concise and easy for me to understand. So thank you.

[@bobbytaraantino]

My mans just explained the journey of computer engineering course in 7 mins

[@sirminhblob657]

I never clicked with any binary explanations before this video. Thanks a lot.

[@ultralaggerREV1]

Real life computer engineers: we made a rock think Minecraft Redstone computer engineers: we made dust think

[@manjulapanchal8342]

I learned about these gates already, but no one gave such good explanation

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Hey man, since you're reading every single comment, I just wanna give you one advice- Never stop! You have huge potential, and in no time will you reach the heights of someone big- Another thing, I also like the fact that you're highly unique. Keep researching and showing it off in such a grand way man! Godspeed!

[@Codeolences]

Thank you so much for your comment, this means a lot!

[@marrs_99]

Dude I actually got goosebumps when you showed the minecraft in minecraft, sometimes I really feel the gravity of how unbelievable complex the history of computer science is and how goddamn smart humans can be to create and master this stuff thats so far outside my understanding for now

[@edsonjr6972]

This guy made a summary of my Computer Org I and II classes in 6 minutes. Excellent content 👏🏽👏🏽

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As Electronic Engineer, im happy to see these kind of vídeos ❤

[@superlemonslicer1224]

HOW ARE YOU SO UNDERRATED??? If you keep up the quality of these videos then I am confident you will succeed 👍

[@Codeolences]

Thank you!!

[@abdulrahmanwaleed1130]

absolutely astonishing video! explaining such a complex subject in a simple and fun way isn't easy, much appreciated.

[@thecomputerman453]

Thanks for this, i ended up making a simple circuit board, something id probaly never do in minecraft

[@diegoruiz9186]

I’ll be taking college level systems and architecture next semester and honestly, this video makes me feel a little more prepared

[@nword9239]

6:35 My Codeolences :(

[@Ercatena890]

Nice video man, i just came from my computer architecture exam and it was so nice to see everything i studied being brought to minecraft, i just wanna say it could be really nice to see pipelining applied to a minecraft cpu

[@vastabyss6496]

It's actually pretty common to have pipelined Minecraft CPUs with forwarding, branch prediction, function calls, and cache

[@histy4815]

bro this channel is cooking

[@juda_howdy3315]

A lot of the things you explain was in College's classes! Very good explanation

[@ZenAc47]

Someone: "Minecraft is for kids" Him: Think again.

[@TheMathamax]

I have my intro to computer engineering midterm in 4 days and this summarized all of my material!

[@Deathwarrior115]

3:31 thanks

[@siryuh8170]

Best Redstone explaination so far

[@Codeolences]

Thank you so much!!!

[@elo_lord8015]

How does it only have 17 comments, it is so underrated

[@jeeboi347]

Nice, learnt a thing or two about redstone watching this

[@AztecTLS]

Software engineering at its finest

[@RieMUisthegoaT]

Ok the end of this video is what really did it for me lol. imo It's easy to "explain" Computer Architecture whether it's explained in redstone or not, what really bugged me about these 5min videos is that they hide away all the other complicated stuff, pipelining...multi cores....parallel processing etc... the more I study computer engineering the more I think computers are magic lol. like I wouldn't say it's hard but it's more complicated than people make it sound. I personally think the best way to understand Computer architecture without studying it (if anyone wants to do it for fun) is by watching ben eater series on building a cpu. Good video!

[@KryzysX]

I second you here

[@OversizedPringleToe]

The editing is top tier! I thought you were a 100k-1m KZbinr!

[@Codeolences]

Thank you!

[@KryzysX]

Similar feeling here

[@nightwitchsara]

im a computer engineer so i already know all of this basically, but its a great intro! i would recommend also introducing the edge-triggered flip flop and talking about the clock. an oscillator is easy enough to make in minecraft, so i dont think it would be too bad to incorporate.

[@UmarFarooq_92]

"Arabic Numerals" wow you really do put time in your research.

[@Just_lazuli]

Everyone knows that the symbols we use are Arabic tho

[@UmarFarooq_92]

@@Just_lazuli "Are you sure about that" - John Cena

[@randomname6961]

I didn't know that it was the Arabic till last year

[@Just_lazuli]

@@UmarFarooq_92 I mean, for non Americans, yeah, It’s common knowledge, like the fact that our alphabet is Roman or our time system comes from Mesopotamia

[@droidy347]

This video just taught me half a semester worth of computer architecture 101

[@BeyondAbsoluteInfinity]

I like how a whole semester on this shit failed to explain this to me as well as this video did in 6 minutes.

[@susfishoushumanbean]

This is honestly incredible. Never stop making such vids man

[@Codeolences]

Thanks!

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We got Minecraft in Minecraft before gta 6 release 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯

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🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓

[@I_hu85ghjo]

a gem of a video. Very well done, sir.

[@Codeolences]

Thanks!

[@ExtemeX5531]

Your Editing 🔛🔝 Underrated af

[@Codeolences]

Thanks!

[@turk4082]

You went over 85% of the material in my EE Digital Design course in the first 4 minutes. Honestly really impressive and I wish we used minecraft redstone instead of broken LEDs and little flimsy wires. Making a DEMUX on a breadboard was not fun when most of the LEDs wouldn't work and the microchips kept failing

[@jackdean2509]

Oh no I’m stupid

[@thathalak7243]

Yeah watching this and realizing I don't understand anything is depressing

[@Codeolences]

Take your time, research each part carefully and you will eventually get it :D These are pretty complex topics so don't feel bad if you don't understand everything after watching just one short video!

[@nafeeafif3176]

I have studied about adder, gates, binary, register etc. But this video made me understand things better than my books

[@yigitilgazengin7726]

We can't even understand Redstone how can we understand electrical engineering with redstone 😭

[@hamzaf19]

I knew all of this but never knew how to apply it to minecraft. Nice one bro. That video is actually nuts

[@Luffy-1213]

5:23 why don't make a assembler in Minecraft and make a easy way to write code

[@destructionindustries1987]

This is so enlightening