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Those LEDs! Those brightly lighty LEDs! Never mind the gates. Relaxen und watschen der blinkenlichten. Indeed the LEDs are the most important part since th
by adrianratnapala 10y ago
Those LEDs! Those brightly lighty LEDs!
Never mind the gates. Relaxen und watschen der blinkenlichten.
Indeed the LEDs are the most important part since this project seems to be all about exposition. For example:
> So how big is it ? Well an 8-bit adder is about a foot long (I use five of these)
If he were optimising for size rather than clarity, it would be much smaller. Instead he has nice diagramtic outlines for the gates, and generous spaces between them. And those LEDs! Those brighty lighty LEDs.
- yitchelle 10y agoWhen I got started in electronics, I imagine exactly a little LED lighting up when a bit is flip in a memory chip. The on in the post is a great illustration! well done!
- roywiggins 10y agoDekatrons work like this :) The actual logical state of the thing is stored using a glowing plasma. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekatron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekatron https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF8CnG7ee-A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF8CnG7ee-A
- clarkmoody 10y agoThe clock speed ramp-up in the video was the coolest part :-)