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IanWard1

Re:Making all your integers positive with zigzag encoding on Friday November 25, 2022 @03:21PM (#33746352)
reminds me of this video on using "-2" as a base for numbers (can represent all positive and negative integers without a sign bit) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWA_NraxOUw

Show HN: Star Wars “No Moon” Scene on Character LCD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMrZlcnPFLo

This circuit has no CPU and instead uses a simple 256-byte lookup table to drive a 20x4 LCD character display. Our LCD has only 8 CGRAM characters so we juggle those 8 characters across the video area as needed.Some parts of the video fare better than others. Lots of movement and large monochrome areas are good, but finer details like talking faces, not so much.Encoder details:...

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Re:Bad Apple on a 32K EEPROM on Friday February 18, 2022 @11:18AM (#30387635)
That's hilarious, but I'll stick with the 1970s tech and 2000s memes.
Re:Megaprocessor – A micro-processor built large (2016) on Thursday November 18, 2021 @11:44AM (#29267468)
Love this kind of build, so I'm working on a little breadboard one myself https://www.youtube.com/IanWard1 similar to the Ben Eater 8-bit CPU videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyznrdDSSGM&list=PLowKtXNTBy... (which are amazing and everyone should watch)