Tom Austin wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>>> It sounds like you think very technically.  What is you interest 
>>> level in electronics.  There's plenty of heavy lifting math there ;-)
>>
>> My *interest level* is moderately high. My *knowledge level* is very low.
>>
>> (As in, I know how it's *supposed* to work. It just doesn't work that 
>> way when *I* do it.)
> 
> I bet that if you dedicate yourself to learning electronics the same way 
> that you dedicated yourself to playing the church organ and uploading 
> the file to youtube you could likely have something working.
> 
> Parts of digital electronics can be very simple - join wire a to wire b.
> Some of it can get tricky, but most of the work has been done for you 
> and is packaged into nice chips.
> 
> Analog can get a bit more tricky.  You have to calculate resistor values 
> and capacitor values to make things work.  Then the parts you can 
> actually use have a tolerance of +-10% - but i calculated I needed a 
> 2045 ohm resistor.....

I actually have some breadboard and a stack of 7400s *somewhere*. (I 
seem to have misplaced them currently.) I was going to try to build a 
CPU... but I never actually got round to it.

(Actually, I got as far as not being able to get the chips to give me 
the truth table I was expecting...)

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