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Show HN: Wired Logic – a pixel-based logic simulator
- archagon 11y agoThis is fantastic! Would be great to get it running in canvas.
- mkirsche 11y agoyou can now draw your own circuit at http://martinkirsche.github.com/wired-logic/ http://martinkirsche.github.com/wired-logic/
- pokpokpok 11y agoAwesome! have a gif of a working calculator? Reminds me of the way that people would build digital electronics in the 'powder-toy' genre of games. Was that an inspiration for this project?
- emersonrsantos 11y agoVery cool. It reminds redstone circuits from Minecraft.
- to3m 11y agoReminds me a bit of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireworld https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireworld
- zhemao 11y agoNow all we need is a Verilog to GIF compiler.
- DonHopkins 11y agoReminds me of John von Neumann's 29 state cellular automata [1], which he used to build a universal constructor [2], but that historic rule made it much harder to cross signals. (You could easily modify the rule to make that easier, but then it wouldn't be historically accurate, which is what makes it so interesting: he designed the rule and the universal constructor in his extremely powerful mind and on ordinary paper!) It's able to create and destroy wires, to the extent that it can actually build other machines and even replicate itself. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_cellular_automaton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_cellular_automaton [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_universal_constructor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_universal_construc...
- userbinator 11y agoThe part about crossing wires creating a transistor is actually conceptually very similar to what real IC layouts look like, although in the latter there are multiple layers and only the bottom two - polysilicon and diffusion - interact to create transistors: http://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/Visual_circuit_tutorial http://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/Visual_circuit_tutorial
- blackguardx 11y agoIf you like this, you will love: http://www.zachtronics.com/kohctpyktop-engineer-of-the-people/ http://www.zachtronics.com/kohctpyktop-engineer-of-the-peopl... an IC design game set in Soviet Russia.
- userbinator 11y agoThat was interesting. I'd love to see a CMOS version.
- justifier 11y agobuilding simulations is the strength of computation assisted intuition