binary counting on a wooden counter

by Nate: Tech

Ok so this guy literally has a wooden counter with eight digits and he just walks through counting from one to sixteen in binary. flips the bits by hand, all casual, no screen or anything. when he hits sixteen the whole thing rolls over and resets to all zeros, like a hardware overflow in real time. it’s such a clean way to see how binary works, especially with the vintage lab gear in the background making it feel like a lost engineering demo