Son of the MK Area Calculator

More about the MK Area Calculator, invented in the 1950s by Roy L Kuykendall and Warren Martin of Albuquerque NM. It's an electronic area measuring overlay, theoretically similar to the dot planimeter. Thanks to Bob Martin for all the info!
My first video about the MK Area Calculator: • MK area calculator Rev...
MK-related downloads: faculty.fairfi...
Green's Theorem picture by Wikimedia user Cronholm144, CC-BY-SA-3.0
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End song inspired by "Hotter than a Molotov" by The Coup.
Chris Staecker webarea: faculty.fairfi...
#spy-n-shoot

[@timetraveller6643]

finding area with a crayon: Colour in the area with your favourite crayon. Weigh the crayon before and after. Compare the weight loss with recorded standard areas. Pat. Pend.

[@wompastompa3692]

I'll buy 50 gross.

[@Ryptun]

Does it come with a weight?

[@timetraveller6643]

@@Ryptun -- Standard crayon weights available for premium customers. Specify colour when ordering.

[@timetraveller6643]

@@wompastompa3692 -- please specify; Metric gross or Imperial gross?

[@hughobyrne2588]

Finding the area with a shredder: color the shape with black marker, shred the paper, pulp it and mix until a uniform grey color. Use a light meter to determine the precise shade of grey, thus giving the area.

[@johnsrabe]

Your videos are not silly, if silly means inconsequential. Your videos connect humans with humans, and humans of today with humans of the past. This is vital for us to continue to be human. Thank you.

[@DonnyHooterHoot]

No, they are quite silly. Signed: Monty Python.

[@unspeakablevorn]

Nowadays electroplating onto flexible materials is pretty common! My keyboard, a bog-standard cheapo Logitech, uses several sheets of the stuff that make contact when a key is pressed.

[@lavuy6744]

cool that they got in contact with you.

[@colinstu]

I like how the other ear's K becomes an M.

[@Nashvillain10SE]

This is gold, Chris...GOLD, I TELL YA!!! 😀👍

[@dlt4videos]

Another gem 💎

[@crowndotm3866]

We're just some sort of math nerds out in California, but we love your work!

[@alanesq1]

A replica of the pea-shooter has to be done!

[@nathanielvirgo]

Maybe the author of that book had one with the finest grid. You'd have to move the stylus slower if the grid is denser, and 25 impulses per second at 100 lines per inch makes for a maximum speed of 1/4 inch per second.

[@ChrisStaecker]

And I assume that the counter itself wasn’t the only rate-determining component in there. (But it’s 100 squares per square inch, which is only 10 lines per inch)

[@klave8511]

Thanks for letting us know about the contact and for filling in a few more details. Green’s integral has me thinking, maybe integrating the function which you would have to draw by hand, sort of analogue integration? I think that the tingling sensation from the pen was the inductive kickback from the counter solenoid, even a low voltage can give you a fun sensation when the contact to an inductor is broken and an actuator that can count that fast would have a hefty solenoid.

[@ro_yo_mi]

An absolutely delightful video, as per usual.

[@melody3741]

The guy in the book was 100% BLAZING across the paper

[@bdot02]

It's always a treat when a new video from you comes across the feed

[@melody3741]

“My own, the rest of it too, cause mine is broken” 😂

[@NiksSofa]

I get the finger tingling on macbooks that are pluged in, so that seems to be a tradition with american hardware.

[@omerfaruksimsek1238]

working principle is similar to the manual colony counter 60's.

[@ChrisStaecker]

Never heard of that before- I agree it looks similar! Thanks for the tip-

[@hughobyrne2588]

A less careful presenter would have read the instructions verbatim, and said "100 squares to the inch". Nice.