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I sometimes think it would be fun to build a big board with just a load of NAND gates on it, with power connected up on the PCB, but inputs/outputs going to ban

I sometimes think it would be fun to build a big board with just a load of NAND gates on it, with power connected up on the PCB, but inputs/outputs going to banana plug jacks. You then wire up your logic with patch cables, a bit like modular synthesizers.

belter 4y ago
NANDputer lives! http://blog.kevtris.org/?p=62 http://blog.kevtris.org/?p=62
misnome 4y ago
Reminds me of the "Electronic Lab" toys I had as a child https://www.petervis.com/electronics-lab/200-in-one-electronic-project-lab/200-in-one-electronic-project-lab.html https://www.petervis.com/electronics-lab/200-in-one-electron...
- blaiseofglory 4y ago
  I remember those as a kid. Is there a modern version?
  - buescher 4y ago
    Yes. Elenco still sells basically the same thing if that's what you want. The competition seems to be something called "snap circuits" which is way too after my time for me to have an opinion about. Adults and teenagers can learn to build things from parts on perfboard or dead-bug style or if you must, on solderless breadboards. Or if you want to get into microcontrollers, you can buy humungous kits of the sort of stuff you might want to hook up to an Arduino for shockingly little money off aliexpress/ebay/amazon.
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