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That is pretty sweet and completely mesmerizing! But, the thought of soldering all of those junctions together; what is the process for testing something like
by snake_plissken 12y ago
That is pretty sweet and completely mesmerizing!
But, the thought of soldering all of those junctions together; what is the process for testing something like this as you build it? What if you make a mistake and don't catch it in time? Like you hook up a diode backwards...
Serious craftsmanship.
- lamuerteflaca 12y agoThis is how you do it: You design it in a computer. Test it. And then just follow the diagram.
- TheOtherHobbes 12y agoI think it's more likely the design is modular - build your BCD counter out of smaller modules, breaking it down to gates. You can repeat the 3D design of each functional unit. Still awesome though. Especially that central ring, which is just there for the look of the thing. I'd be a little worried there are no decoupling caps anywhere, so it could be a touch glitchy - although at 12V you'd have good natural noise immunity, so I guess that's not a problem in practice.
- rtkwe 12y agoThe artist probably built it in segments which they could test individually then assembled it together, probably testing sub assemblies too. It'd be crazy to try to build this all at once. And since most of this boils down to a series of pulse dividers it's relatively simple to test them in pieces.