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I've designed a circuit board and soldered all the pieces.
NotBomberguy:
good luck sorting all those wires my brother
DrenDran:
--- Quote from: NotBomberguy on April 19, 2017, 05:14:47 PM ---good luck sorting all those wires my brother
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I don't keep track of the wires, I keep track of the pinholes on the chips:
SeventhSandwich:
--- Quote from: DrenDran on April 19, 2017, 03:25:09 PM ---Bachelor of arts in biology with russian and criminal justice minors.
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So are you interested in comp bio as well, or are you just one of these polymath types that can pick up stuff like this as a side project? :cookieMonster:
DrenDran:
--- Quote from: SeventhSandwich on April 19, 2017, 09:50:56 PM ---So are you interested in comp bio as well, or are you just one of these polymath types that can pick up stuff like this as a side project? :cookieMonster:
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Honestly I wanted to go into college for a computer science degree but 17 year old me thought it would be too over-saturated. Sort of kicking myself now because I ended up changing majors half way through college to a stem field and now I'm gonna have to attend an extra year and only come out with a BA.
Maybe someday my evolution simulators and breadboard computers will let me live off youtube ad revenue. :cookieMonster:
Anyway, I made a gif, sorry for the low resolution:
It's just a test of the general register B.
Meldaril:
--- Quote from: DrenDran on April 19, 2017, 01:51:23 PM ---Actually quite well! I've updated the OP with a new picture and a few more opcodes.
I'll post a video this evening that shows the machine running a few basic programs I've made for it.
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Could you describe your computer with a finite state automaton? I think in America they call it a finite state machine.
I'd love to see a single instruction like a move or add decoded into opcodes using of them.
--- Quote from: DrenDran on April 19, 2017, 11:06:33 PM ---Honestly I wanted to go into college for a computer science degree but 17 year old me thought it would be too over-saturated. Sort of kicking myself now because I ended up changing majors half way through college to a stem field and now I'm gonna have to attend an extra year and only come out with a BA.
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The attrition/dropout rate is shockingly high for my university. My year had a lot of people who studied computer science to make big amounts of money and their grades suffered as a result. I heard it's the same for other establishments (at least in my country anyway).
I'm surprised you're not studying computer science. At my university, they taught us how to build a CPU from first principles in the second year so I'd imagine you would probably find the first year very easy going.