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  • Homebrew CPU webring

  • My breadboard TTL color computer is now included in David R. Brooks' Homebrew CPU webring. How cool is that!In the meantime I have figured out how to mix video with application code. Next week we'll have a 5-day holiday, and if there are some rainy days...
  • ZX81 on Baffa-2 Homebrew Microcomputer

  • A set of boards based on this project was my first design of boards for Baffa-2 Homebrew Microcomputer. As I already had my Homebrew Zeddie I decided to prioritize a CP/M machine.Now  Baffa-81 is done :) more information at https://hackaday.io/project/188406-baffa-81-zx81-compatible-computerThere...
  • Homebrew soft core

  • In the last week I tried to create my own RISC-V soft core for this contest, but now contest is over and I was not able to achieve minimum requirements (100% passing RV32I compliance tests and ability to run RTOS Zephyr), but I've got really close...
  • Added the clock to the Tell Time Contest

  • The clock that was built with the 1-square-Inch CPU was entered in the Tell Time Contest, you can see the entry HERE.  And a few months ago, this CPU was featured on Hackaday !I also entered another clock to the contest, the Forklift...
  • State Machine and instruction types

  • When I was coming up with new Register Transfer Scheme,  and in general while rethinking the design approach for this CPU, I realised that the explicit state machine will be the way to go. At the time I thought it would consist of quite a few of...
  • Homebrew

  • This device I'm building is not very beginner-friendly. It uses all SMD components, a bare displays screen, needs you to flash the bootloader to a bare chip and compile your own CircuitPython, etc. Quite a bit of work, to be honest. On the other hand,...
  • Brief Update...

  • I built my 2nd revision CPU (dubbed Zeta-2 because obviously it needs a badass name) and tested it's basic functionality. Manually operating the control lines, I was able to run each subsystem of the CPU and add, subtract, etc numbers. However, a number...
  • Shift-left for ALU?

  • With two working registers, this makes for, say, the shift-left portion of a 4-bit homebrew ALU/CPU...With two separately-controlled DRAM banks, or one and a register, could easily serialize any nibble stored anywhere...I *think* this could be used for...