Bit by Bit
Although progress continues to be slow, the machine is taking shape bit by bit. I bought another 100 foot spool of wire, along with 1000 pre-cut and pre-stripped wires in lengths from 1 to 4 inches. The pre-cut wire makes…
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Slow and Slower
My recent wire-wrapping progress has been painfully slow: I’ve timed myself at about 2 minutes per wire. You might wonder how it could possibly take that long, but all the measuring, stripping, threading, wrapping, and squinting time really adds up.…
Construction
After ages of procrastination, I’m finally making some slow but measurable progress towards turning my paper design into reality, and actually building this crazy machine. Wire wrapping seems impossibly slow and tedious compared with working on a protoboard. Just creating…
Peripherals Galore
There’s been lots of recent activity on different fronts. Too bad I still haven’t made any progress actually building the machine. Keyboardin’ Part 2 Here’s a shot of my glorious hand-wired PS/2 keyboard connector. I spent some time over the…
Keyboarding
Last night I rigged up a system to read keypress data from a standard PS/2 style PC keyboard. I bought the necessary parts weeks ago, but I assumed it would be complicated to get working, and never made any progress…
Slow Progress
Last week I completed the board layout for BMOW, determining the placement for all the chips and other components. I even went as far as soldering in all the bypass capacitors, and wiring power and ground to the crystal oscillator…
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