The Redstone Potential | A Minecraft Calculator

I built an 8-bit calculator in minecraft. This has been a project of mine for quite some time, and I finally got it finished.
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[@mattbatwings]

Check out the UPGRADED calculator here - kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5jIfnermd2NlZY

[@icecream4556]

How much time did it take to make it?

[@neilfredericduma1654]

@@icecream4556 I think most of his builds took him a month to finish.

[@brennergames3732]

@@neilfredericduma1654 not even a month the graphing calculator took just about a month

[@neilfredericduma1654]

@@brennergames3732 oh yeah! That was I was meant to say!

[@neilfredericduma1654]

Thanks for reminding :)

[@lazykid1147]

Jesus, imagine doing your math homework with Minecraft.

[@Draglox]

LMAO

[@lazykid1147]

@Don’t click the about page lol

[@thiscoolguy4378]

yay now i can play minecraft while doing my homework LOL

[@emefafrank]

You can You can For Example You can put 1 block and place 2 other blocks and count them together and it would be 3. 😎

[@Spelunkid]

Well. I think building it would be harder then any homework, at least for me, that is.

[@anupamranaway3113]

Seriously After Watching it Me: Thinking to make it Brain: Don't Even think about it

[@emefafrank]

You're not alone I don't even know how to work with piston's

[@emefafrank]

I know how to make piston's push but that's it Oh yeah I'll so I can make an ender dragon egg farm with piston I think

[@electricninja7493]

At first I was like ok...I can see how you can create numbers with this, but then once I saw the control panel I was like wtf how??

[@nathanphillipswijaya230]

Not enough skill :v

[@jojidalanon4392]

its not that hard it will only take you 2 hours

[@stompbuilds5416]

This is truly impressive. I took a class back in the late 80's where we learned how to build a calculator. Now you can do it in virtual reality. I'd imagine engineers should be using the tools to teach. Circuitry is different, but concept is same.

[@mattbatwings]

Steve Svensson They should definitely use this to teach. Especially when most teenagers and college freshmen are already familiar with minecraft.

[@geordirendum583]

no lol, there are other tools to teach that are more efficient

[@mattbatwings]

@@geordirendum583 That doesn’t mean minecraft can’t be one of them. I know for a fact that when I was 7 years old i would have been much more on board with just playing minecraft (while being secretly taught logic) rather than some program that isn’t a game.

[@treysandstrom15]

@@mattbatwings Minecraft red stone taught me more than any computer class in school ever did by the age of 11

[@larsb.1972]

@@treysandstrom15 i feel bad for you

[@Soupax_]

At school "4+18" Me "open Minecraft"

[@13TVEATJNAUTTPEMERALDSDIAMONDS]

22

[@wolfscouts4884]

@@13TVEATJNAUTTPEMERALDSDIAMONDS you missed the joke

[@pen1smonster329]

that’s an easy question what kind of idiot need a calculator for that it’s 21

[@kopitopi1757]

@@pen1smonster329 nah it's 420

[@Unknown-sr9fz]

@@pen1smonster329 your saying he’s dumb but you got it wrong lol it’s 22 your the dumb one

[@boilingman4357]

Man you legitimately can present this on school

[@Mystic-4252]

"Teachers": Could be better, 7/10

[@kongogamin]

@@Mystic-4252 If I get that score, I'll be like: *Oh you son of a-*

[@Kaybar]

This is the single greatest thing I have ever seen. Mumbo has nothing on you my good sir, well done.

[@mattbatwings]

Rylex thanks!

[@Admiral-Karkata]

@@mattbatwings I hope your channel grows because with that skill you are going places I followed your Tiktok

[@psun256]

Mattbatwings Computational redstone taken to the next level. Lmao I know this is stupid but I wanna see if I can implement really basic protein folding. Folding@home? More like folding in mc

[@enfuzzygamer4987]

FYI mumbo jumbo doesn't do computational redstone.

[@parthibhayat]

Would be great if it was shown how it works

[@samuelisaac2984]

Imagine how fast this could be if repeaters didn't have to have delay.

[@ROVERLORDD_]

Nah, wouldn’t work without delays, they have a lot of importance in that circuit to not mix signals I think.

[@ceddyd]

@@ROVERLORDD_ Not exactly. Circuits in real life run on a clock signal so that calculations can only happen when the clock switches. In laymen’s terms, won’t break the circuit.

[@ROVERLORDD_]

@@ceddyd Wow, that's cool ! Although I was talking about the Minecraft version where there are usually specific places where a delay is essential, and others where delays are due to the "electrical resistance" of redstone matter (this means you need a repeater which adds unnecessary delay...).

[@ROVERLORDD_]

@@ceddyd now that I think of it, it could be interesting to disassemble a calculator to understand where signals go to activate what and how…

[@noahhunt871]

@@ROVERLORDD_ I wish repeaters would have 0 delay but you could still right click them to give them delavy

[@garamath3545]

Heres a review: I give a super 11/10 for this. I have been playing with this for 15 minutes, and I did not saw any glitches or false calculations. It works better than every minecraft calculators that i have tried, it's super fast and theres no lag. I don't regret downloading and testing this map. Edit: I forgot to say that it's super compact for this engine!

[@mattbatwings]

Thank you very much. I’m honestly surprised you haven’t found any errors. I must have really lucked out considering I didn’t really do a final check before posting. Appreciate you

[@user-qj2ze7su2p]

@@mattbatwings k

[@agent.p2930]

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[@Tanner404]

It's kinda sad this isn't very popular

[@mattbatwings]

bluespider 89 reddit likes it a lot better, haha

[@agustinleniart8017]

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[@pinktacokillah5287]

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[@tearfultearful]

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[@limaftereffects]

Bro Mombo Jumbo will get down on his knees if he sees this

[@colour3859]

Spam this in his comments

[@mamin3152]

Mumbo Jumbo: Oh boi, time to build it even bigger

[@Zhenmoron]

Sethbling: **brings out armor stands**

[@taxfraud4853]

@Cloud Strife how do u make a working calculator smarter and ahem capable?

[@Prouf1]

how do i play on the world?

[@Ailsworth]

This is the most impressive demonstration of Redstone computing I have seen. No other video proves turing completeness like this one with its several problems solved right before our eyes.

[@G__Brtz]

"Mom, can I play minecraft?" "Not until your homework is done" "But mom, I can do both at the same time" "Oh sweetie, don't be silly. You're not a robot, you cant multitask"

[@craftminerCZ]

Aw man this brings back memories, this used to be the top of Redstone engineering, back when no observers or comparators existed. It looks so simple now but damn if I haven't spent hundreds of hours trying to understand it almost a decade back in elementary lol

[@ahmedelgabry2780]

bro now with those wirless sculks or wtvre they are called and freaking lecturns/ fillable bookshelfs lmao

[@dexdiamond]

i dont even know how that is humanly possible ...... incredible work dude !

[@mattbatwings]

Asmit Ray thank you :)

[@mNandhu7]

Actually..it is possible ..that's how our phones work But then actually making it in Minecraft makes it a little more complicated..but basically the contraption would be smaller if each circuit such as the BCD Converter and the Bit Adder, Subtraction, Multiplier, Division. Put em into a block and the thing is just the Display of numbers that is the big contraption But anyways..This takes a lot of time and reasearch..

[@thibvp778]

@@mNandhu7 the display only needs binary -> number and each number (0-9) is coded according to which piston should be pushed, it's the easiest part, subtraction and division are horrible

[@crusaderanimation6967]

While watching video i went trough couple stages: 1: A yea some people might be impressed by it's probably simple logic gates, i've done something like that in log ism... but without decimal display, so that's nice, and amount of work is astonishing. 2: Wow it can multiply, perhaps i underestimated you. 3 OMG IT DOSE DIVIDING FIXED POINT !

[@kenzarezyarifin1076]

Exactly the same thing happened to me lmao.

[@TinyDeskEngineer]

The hardest parts of making a calculator using redstone is knowing how a calculator actually works, and how you could possibly make all the circuits without causing problems. I don't know either of those things. Great job!

[@monke1295]

The hardest part is the patience

[@hritviknijhawan1737]

OH MY GOD.... how did you even make that- you know you should be really awarded a Minecraft Award for the best redstone creation. Speechless.

[@pilote_989]

woah man thats crazy!! really nice vid and editing, keep up the great work ;))

[@mattbatwings]

Guilhem DARBOIS thank you!

[@sirius9436]

@@mattbatwings how old are you anyways

[@EAW156]

Yeah, but the comparator already does math stuff. It can do subtraction. Rip

[@watchthemaster5906]

@@sirius9436 he is probably like 50 now, and he spent his whole life on this

[@ctrtheluc]

My man is doing the Industrial revolution in Minecraft

[@mimixte]

Found the channel not to long ago, I'm now finding myself watching every single video you posted because it's amazing

[@whodvethunk6525]

mumbo jumbo: just a simple Redstone build you can make in just about 0.0001 seconds

[@svhmj3918]

This is awesome! I can't believe this video doesn't have more views.

[@infinitepossibilities2614]

This is huge!! Awesome work my friend... 🙌

[@tom_fett]

The fact that you can switch so easily between multiplications and divisions is impressive. Great work

[@fatimazz]

Omg this is sooo smart. You're like the modern Einstein dude. You're definitely one of the best Redstone Engineers I've seen.

[@jusinplayintd6791]

Imagine if a student use computer and play minecraft in math class but theres a world named "calculator"

[@arterize9227]

Thank you so much for spiring me! after I learn basic binary in youtube. I finally did binary algorithm in minecraft and translate binary to numbers, numbers to binary. So, it doesn't hard really, I know your feeling now how amazing it is when we can imitate logic gate in cpu into minecraft form.

[@Minezelum]

Must be the most underrated Minecraft smartest KZbinr I've ever seen! Not even counting Mumbo Jumbo or Sethbling

[@laurynasvigraitis4798]

This deserves 100000× more likes and subscribes. It's just OMG. HOW??? I can't make a double piston extendor look at you. I have no words you are awesome. I want to know how long did it took you to design and make it? It's just awesome.

[@Polkatella]

lookup Bluestone redstone computer

[@maazali9604]

It is a bunch of 1s, 0s and logic gates. Learning the how this works is not that hard but the sheer scale of this one is quite incredible. I cant even make a calculator above 4 bits and this made this

[@rimka3754]

Ikr??

[@monke1295]

It's not that hard it just takes a lot of work

[@kenzarezyarifin1076]

You don't actually need to understand redstone like making a 5x5 door. As long as you understand how computer use logic gates to do math, you can make your own computer (with enough dedication). Although you may get stuck a lot. If you want to learn more about computer, I recommended checking Sebastian Lague channel, he has 2 videos about "Exploring how computers work" and "How do computers remember?". Also I recommended checking Melneusc channel, he has a full series how to make computer and Tom Scott video about "The Fetch-Execute Cycle: What's Your Computer Actually Doing?". But still, I agreed this man is incredible. The display and user interface is insane, and the computer is really fast, and it can do division.

[@myhand4272]

Got here when i see ''so..I made Minecraft in Minecraft."

[@myhand4272]

@Louis Bridges-Galvez idk yes maybe

[@MonkeyMink]

My gosh you need much more recognition than what you've got for making that!

[@gklabs]

As a redstoner myself, ive been meaning to sub to you for a long time, this popped up on my recommended and I finally did it. Sorry, long overdue xd

[@commenter3002]

me: *Hmmmmm, maybe I can make it?* also me: **gives up on just placing the first 10 redstone pieces**

[@VOYD733]

and im wondering how they even make theese things in real life.

[@TheDarkSide11891]

Really it's a pretty similar concept just on a much, much, much smaller scale. Just A LOT of logical circuits combined to perform math functions

[@GamingwithShabd]

I can really appreciate your work You are a genius

[@itzsadiq2237]

How you did it with redstone and your mind is amazing tbh

[@viniciusassuncao4039]

Christ dude you really have too much time on your hands

[@tieroneoperator635]

Yet still he's putting it in a good use. Man... Could you build anything like this yourself? Mechanical, electronic, or minecraft-based?

[@shubhoooooo2297]

But even then its not easy bro

[@noorjahan1660]

Look Mattbatwings u got a "Serious dedication" advancement in the redstone tab! Lol Seriously the best and the most useful redstone contraption I have ever seen!

[@mattbatwings]

Gud Boiii The 2nd haha thank you :)

[@windows7user770]

Think about how much time he spent making this I appreciate this !! You got a subscriber

[@duded919]

This guy deserves a lot more than 1.2 thousand subs and he just earn another :) amazing work

[@L30BURZ4]

Amazing!!!

[@Frostyflytrap]

Wow, I expected the first three operations to calculate a lot slower, like with how division. I don't quite understand how the lights change that quickly with lines of Redstone that long, is instant wire used in this calculator?

[@mattbatwings]

Frostyflytrap no instant wire. The displays have decoders for converting from a redstone signal (0 - 9) into the display of the number

[@YomActual]

That's a bloody brilliant building 👀

[@haody3494]

Mom: “Dear, why are you using minecraft during your math class?” “I was using the calculator”

[@joemamaobama.]

I can’t even build a piston door lol

[@mamin3152]

how, simply how. I cant imagine how one can do this

[@HueHanaejistla]

a calculator is actually not that hard to build once you understand the mechanics of it the logic behind a calculator is actually very simple, but it requires space and some complex circuits to do the simple parts for example, the logic gates. a logic gate just takes 2 or more inputs that are true/false and then outputs a true/false based on the inputs. take the AND gate: if both inputs are true, then it outputs true. if only one or both are false, it outputs false. then you string these together and you get a calculation

[@isabelk.3504]

This is so strange! How could it be so awesome ?! Mind blowing

[@tacodogo8424]

I just finished my own calculator similar to this today, but it can only add and subtract. The feeling you get when it finally works is incredible though!!!

[@Luca-pg5mj]

Imagine in the future a PC that is powerful enough to run Minecraft on a powerful enough PC built in Minecraft.😮🤯

[@thecoolcat8294]

this is so underrated

[@chilldo5982]

Holy moly! You got that so good! I didn't even think about divide!

[@mattbatwings]

thank you :)

[@Mike-ui9uz]

This is so underrated. GRST WORK!

[@ronzzz999]

Now we can give excuses to our parents that we are doing homework in Minecraft 🤣🤣

[@makctelephones6213]

Bit Calculation works with "And" "or" "Xor" etc ( i dont remember others xd) By using 1 or 0 Bits the 1 or 0 is like redstone On and off actually. making 8bit Game in minecraft is possible i think(but needs more advanced repeater and redstone torches that can adjust delay with MS)

[@matthewwilcox2055]

Plus the display can only have on/off, not different colors

[@matschbirne5363]

Matthew Wilcox that’s not a problem Pac-Man for example was run in a 8bit and wouldn’t really need color so u don’t need color for games

[@bertiecartwright824]

Yeah I have experience with building Minecraft computers and really the only bottleneck is the need for repeaters on long busses and redstone torches within logic gates which accumulates to clock speeds of around 5 seconds in any decent redstone CPU. I would say that for even snake, you would need to reach a clock speed of at most 0.1 seconds which would equate to a repeater and torch delay of 0.002 seconds and when you get to that point it's more of a question of whether your actual computer can run Minecraft at that speed. I would still say it's possible tho with some kind of tick-warp mod and a decent PC.

[@yvan1401]

isn't that what the the dude who recoded pokemon red did ?

[@makctelephones6213]

@@yvan1401 idk but he didnt atleast he used blocks to calculate things

[@ethanhansonbenner5975]

that is insane, great job super impressive

[@willbagthegreat]

Wow, I appreciate all your effort

[@LameFacts1]

I can't believe that 🔥😵😵

[@Spandonasia]

Yeah

[@FundamSrijan]

Sasta youtuber spotted

[@NoodlesAreYummy1199]

Mom: Why are you playing minecraft? Me: Im doing my math homework

[@lordnoob3707]

Seeing it after a year of its release, but this video completely has blown my mind

[@YoBoiHrcky]

"There's no magic" This video would disagree

[@ginawi]

Calculator: *exists* 10/3:

[@purplefish2787]

Calculator: 10/3 = 10/3

[@oggy2101]

Best minecraft creation ever made on utube.....keep it up brother👍👍✨

[@viksingg6661]

this is fantastic good job!

I just wanna know how this is possible with repeaters and torches, LIKE WHAT DOES WHAT AND HOW REDSTONE MULTIPLIES AND EVERYTHING Honestly bro you're amazing dropped a sub and keep up! :D

[@mattbatwings]

Szöli the redstone acts as binary. Thank you!!

[@Polkatella]

lookup Bluestone Redstone computer

[@krishna435]

It is possible. It is also easy but complex, once you know boolean algebra. Just, even if you find it easy, you still cant built one because it is complex and pure brainfuck

[@ejlyt9148]

Imagine this somehow gets broken in the next update. T.T

[@silverdiamond2098]

Good that on the Java edition launcher you can switch between update versions without any problems

[@user-Player530]

This calculator uses simple redstone, so it probably won't break any time soon or in the past.

[@ejlyt9148]

@@user-Player530 nice

[@andy_n4104]

As a computer science student and a person who knows how small a bit could be really know how insane this thing actually was😮😮😅😅😅

[@erkolgames7368]

That is absolutely insaneee, I came here late but wow, I'm speechless. Just WOW.

[@lucianodelphino4726]

This is absolutely amazing, bro! Do you mind if I show some footage of it in a video I am making talking about technology? I will definitely source your channel and this video! Everyone must know about this!

[@mattbatwings]

Go for it! Thank you for asking :)

[@fattoosshh]

Me : *_divides with zero_* Redstone calculator: *EXPLOSION*

[@emrickponey1938]

WHAAAAAAT I'm doing redstone since a long time now and i cant understand what you did here, it doesn't feat in my head like whaaat, GG bro you're a real god at my eyes

[@matejkropacek86]

Its. Unbelievable. YOU. ARE. GENIUS

[@Alaska-mk4ok]

Red stone is actually really realistic

[@silverdiamond2098]

It basically is just binary. But then translating even sometimes simple algorithms into a minecraft redstone contraption can be quite tricky because you are so limited with what you have in game and it is difficult not to run into other redstone wires. Also it is annoying to find out where you need to fix something if the contraption is not working properly

[@elfy-brawlstars9700]

Imagine placing water in it without to want

[@ToxShatteredPD]

Bruh thats Insane, I can't even imagine how the whole thing is made :O

[@S4ltylol]

THIS IS VERY IMPRESSIVE MAN LIKE BRO IMAGINE TRYNA DO THIS BY HAND

[@sixmint2904]

I tried making a calculator once. I used a system to make sure that only the correct answer is output when you put inputs in. It only went up to 3. It took me ages. It was a huge mess.

[@awesomebosna2796]

I cant even make simple things with redstone

[@macksuting6263]

Looks like some kind of futuristic city, it's beautiful ngl

[@MinecraftEasyYT]

this is the most exciting and the best Redstone ever

[@xWatexx]

If you’re curious about why it’s kind of slow, this computer is basic for even calculators, and unfortunately redstone travels quite a bit slower than the speed of light. So processing takes more time.

[@adegimang]

That was amazing bro 🤩

[@Dheeraj_kumar9976]

Excellent work

[@RicardoDeSantiagoMusic]

THIS IS ABSOLUTLY AMAZING

[@manillarangsamarak4117]

Unbelievable... Keep on wprking👍

[@JCW25]

MAKE THIS MAN FAMOUS! you just earned a new sub

[@mattbatwings]

JCW thank you :)

[@justmyxa4889]

Such impressive. You really know waht is circuitry.

[@crescentlive1]

my brain cannot comprehend the genius required to place every block precisely

[@karolzaubski687]

Everybody: Redstone is simple! Me: So make THIS.

[@anjum-432]

Dude......the guy who built this is way beyond human...saulte you sir

[@doritoapollo123]

You are literally a masterbuilder.

[@squeakycamp207]

I just built a simple binary calculator myself, which can only add and the maximum number you can put in is 15. That alone was already very big and it took quite long and I was super proud. So I looked up "Minecraft Calculator" and I really don't know how you did this! Mine didnt even have a screen for output! It was just pure binary! Congrats dude, this is truly amazing!

[@mattbatwings]

SquekIsBeck thank you so much! if you’re interested in looking at the components themselves to get a better understanding, there’s a world download for that in the description as well

[@Chris-io2cs]

I don't know if I've ever seen a 16-bit combinational BCD converter (or really even many good examples of a fast sequential system over 8-bits) on youtube and I was really not wanting to do the wiring myself lol so many thanks for this.

[@mattbatwings]

Example Comment of course!

[@brownnutz2040]

cool dude, that's so insane

[@psychoshooter6320]

Teacher: calculators not allowed in exams. Kid at the back:see my redstone calculator.

[@aniketjadhav7700]

This is mind-blowing 🤩😍

[@avocatatomique]

Bro this is unreal !

[@nfx_edts]

Superb bro 🔥

[@lukest4070]

WOOW YOU IS GENIUS!

[@awokawok11]

this man is really crazy! this is the most smartes thing ive ever seen in minecraft!