20% Computers
Andrew Kapsch
MIPS Processor
Me and my friends met up with an old friend to discuss how computers worked in depth. It was a really cool meeting! He went through what he had learned throughout college, and taught us some very useful things. He went over around six years in a couple of hours. In front of us, we had a whiteboard to draw on. He drew out different parts and showed how they worked, and eventually drew out a basic MIPS type processor, which is in the image above. It shows the different steps: FDEMW. A similar version is below.
8-bit ALU
This is the 8-bit ALU I created in LabVIEW. It can do different calculations and operations.
Processor
This is everything combined. Click on the image to see the entire combination (Long image, doesn't fit in the thumbnail)
Register File
The register file is where an instruction can store data temporarily. Multiple instructions can access this data. It is very similar to RAM, except built inside of the processor similar to a cache.
Electronics, robotics, programming, and much more have been my interests for many many years, ever since I was a little kid. I have always wanted to learn more. I am mainly self-taught, and I have been trying to learn more and more about more advanced electronics. I also like to reverse engineer how old circuit boards functioned, and how I can use the parts from old boards to create new things. I love making things work together that were never originally intended to go together. I am also really good at repairing and fixing things. If something is broken, I can usually get it to work again after some tinkering. It may look a little different in the end (Tape, glue, etc) but I have recovered tons of electronics, and saved myself tons of money!