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A project log for PIC MCUs Based Homebrew Computer

The goal: to make a working computer, with a keyboard input, LCD Display output, a compiler and to have fun all the way. NEWBIE ALERT

davedave 05/09/2015 at 18:082 Comments

Sorry all for not updating my project for so long. I didn't have a computer.

I just set up a new chip, connected it to the data bus and prepared all that it needs to start becoming a chip with a built in ASM Compiler for my language.

For the sake of testing it, I used my breadboard and mounted an LED.

It's nothing special yet. All it does is interpreting a letter 'D' (that is pulled from the keyboard, sent to Compiler by a CPU). I deceided to make a simple inline compiler first. I've done some code parsing and compiling to byte code before, but it was all strictly software related, so I am looking forward to do it from the scratch.

Sorry for a shaky video.

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dave wrote 05/14/2015 at 14:06 point

:P Hahaha, thanks. Yeah, my poor assistant... She's very smart.. she knows now to chew on cables. 

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Eric Hertz wrote 05/14/2015 at 10:19 point

Hah! It looks like you've been overworking your poor assistant!

I like how you started with the plant, you've got some great directing skills. Oh, and those wires, everywhere... the laboratory of a mad-scientist... with the music in the background, the only thing missing was thunder and lightening :)

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