n00b_asaurus
Just a tinkerer at heart who's been given a YouTube channel.
I don't upload to grow an audience... not anymore anyway.
I upload because I have something I am proud of and I think is worth sharing.
Topics I cover are usually computer hardware, software development, and redstone related, but I can and do deviate.
That is the nature of a tinkerer.
If what I post provides you with some sort of value, consider buying me a coffee as a thank you. No account needed.
n00b_asaurus
Winter is here :)
1 week ago | [YT] | 16
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I wanna give a quick shout out to @argusrailen5353! He'd been messing around with automatic minecart rail networks too, and he managed to figure out how to control each junction with redstone lines, as well as how to propagate those signals across vast distances without using chunk loaders!
Certainly check it out!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjhkM...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfDmI...
1 month ago | [YT] | 4
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It took a while, but I think I've fallen in love with making computers again.
Though, I don't care about making my own ISA anymore... and fuck making them faster!
I'm more interested in modeling real computers! I'm so fascinated with the way a modern computer system coordinates its complex dance between components and data flow.
How it seems to be able to reconfigure itself on the fly to accommodate anything the user wants. How CPU's and threads share the same hardware. How software communicates and works together. It's all just too cool!
I've got other responsibilities, of course, so while I'd love to spend all my time pursuing this, I'm gonna have to regulate myself quite a bit.
But I think I've got myself a nice project that's gonna keep me busy for a while.
1 month ago (edited) | [YT] | 57
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It's been a few weeks since I switched to Linux as my daily driver.
The only thing I have to say: was there a learning curve? Yes. Was it worth it? Absolutely! Do I recommend it? I could never recommend it enough! How hard is it to learn? About as hard as making a ChatGPT account ;)
I'm *loving* how customizable everything is, and I can finally set everything up exactly how *I* want it... not how some Microsoft engineer wants it!
I've also spent the last few weeks migrating my home server to Linux as well. My dinky little 8th gen i5 office tower I pulled out of an e-waste dumpster 7 years ago has always struggled to run Windows, but now it's running Proxmox and 3 headless Debian 12 containers like they're nothing!
Not only have I been able to configure my desktop the way I've always wanted it, but now I'm starting to configure my home network how I've always wanted it as well!
A whole world of possibilities has opened up! Self hosted cloud environments, media servers, password managers, VPN's, AI chat bots. Smart home devices can be made cheap and simple with a few Raspberry Pi's. I feel like a kid in a candy shop and I honestly couldn't be happier with my decision!
I've ousted Microsoft from my life (good riddance)... Google is next.
1 month ago | [YT] | 25
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Got the memory and IO compressed and squeezed in there. I did deviate from the original slightly by adding a proper device enable decoder to the address bus... as well as doubling the amount of internal memory (looks like I had much more space available than I had initially anticipated).
But once that was done, I was able to add the panels, and I think this one is done.
2 months ago | [YT] | 16
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It is really satisfying how everything just kinda slots in there like that :P
2 months ago | [YT] | 16
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Got the counter, ALU, flag and accumulator all neatly packaged and packed inside the cube.
Now I just gotta shrink the control logic and squeeze a bit of memory in there.
2 months ago | [YT] | 24
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Silly as it might seem, I thought it'd be fun to rebuild Deep Thought in Logic World. Don't know why, I just thought it'd be cool.
The wiring's a bit messy, but all the components are there and working. All of my test programs are running. All that's left is to compress the state machine and memory some (I'm using a build kit for quick setup during prototyping) and pack it all in the housing.
2 months ago | [YT] | 27
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Wanna see me make a really small computer?
Wanna see me do it again?
2 months ago | [YT] | 28
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So I was going over the manual for deep thought this evening.
Bit of self critiquing: this is a terrible manual. It's got a lot fancy diagrams, but it doesn't really do a great job explaining things... not to mention the spelling.
And yeah, I was pretty new to technical writing, and I've improved a lot since.
But unfortunately there's one serious mistake that makes the entire manual completely useless...
... some of the schematics are just outright wrong.
2 months ago | [YT] | 12
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