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Do not disturb my circles

A project log for wirez80

Z80 machine with a hex keypad and 7-segment displays built on a cylindrical wireframe

matsengmatseng 12/23/2018 at 10:514 Comments

It is said that the last words uttered by Archimedes before being killed by a Roman soldier while drawing in the sand was "Nōlī turbāre circulōs meōs!"  which translates to "Do not disturb my circles".

Well, my circles - or maybe I should say rings -  that should have been put nice and straight on top of each other are for sure disturbed.  ;-)

They ended up a bit more crooked and askew than I had hoped for, and while I can strive for perfection I don't demand it from myself, so for the time being this is good enough.

Even if I had printed some jigs for holding the rings in place while soldering the resistors that I use as spacers/structure between the rings it was really hard to make it look even remotely nice.

3d-printed spacers for holding the rings while soldering
3d-printed spacers for holding the rings while soldering

Well, this is how the first cylinder ended up. Maybe the second cylinder with 16 rings for the address bus will be a bit prettier now that I have some experience with them.

The cylinder-of-rings that will become the D0-D7 databus
3d-printed spacers for holding the rings while soldering

Discussions

Yann Guidon / YGDES wrote 12/23/2018 at 15:35 point

Resistors as spacers ?...

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matseng wrote 12/23/2018 at 16:25 point

I had a bunch of 1 megs at home. It would have been better with 10 megs of course, but I think it will be ok.

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matseng wrote 12/23/2018 at 16:26 point

Could have used 1pf caps as well, but I don't have that low a value in enough quantity...

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Dr. Cockroach wrote 12/23/2018 at 12:59 point

Hey, looks good to me :-D

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