I have been throwing around ideas, and I am glad to say that I am beginning the design phase of a Relay computer. I am researching memory storage and bit registry, and clocks too. I found a great page that will help me design my relay computer, and all I need now is a cheap source of a lot of relays. If you have any links to cheap relays, let me know asap!
I have been throwing around ideas, and I am glad to say that I am beginning the design phase of a Relay computer. I am researching memory storage and bit registry, and clocks too. I found a great page that will help me design my relay computer, and all I need now is a cheap source of a lot of relays. If you have any links to cheap relays, let me know asap!
I have one suggestion. Consider carefully your power requirements. A quick survey of signal relays from NEC and Omron reveals that each non-latching relay will consume between 150 and 500 milliwatts. A handfull of relays could easily require a rather large power supply. When I was a young engineer I heard tell of a 5V 3600 A supply that was used for such a purpose. I never knew weather to believe it or not.
Driving a single non-latching relay requires a minimum of one transistor, one diode, and one or two resistors.
A single coil latching relay requires a more complicated bridge driver, but consumes much lower power when it is not switching. This is very similar to the behavior of a CMOS output.
BTW in the NEC literature they mention that at elevated temperatures there will be outgassing that has the possibility to corrode the contacts. Sounds yuckey.
Of course! I am looking into creating a clock counter (out of relays) for the fininte state machine. This has helped me a lot, even though it is kinda long and layed out a tad bit too much.
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Thank you for that linky! It is saved under bookmarks and I will read through that later. Not sure why it would be on retards.org
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for people to "just out of no where say" i am going to take this one from everyone that way i have soemthing to do to foget to talk about later,., that will never ne able to be put back into circulation
Update: I found a computer tower, and I am in the process of modifiying it so that I can install all the peripherals inside. I am going to do it, the gears of a indominateable mind have been set in motion.
Krum, after your done. I have the perfect robot. ww2 tank conversion when when the duo core Apple laptops become somewhat obsolete. Node them together flip the screens around use them as display's ? Add some hydraulic arms and power it all off diesel, operate with a joy stick of your choosing.
As to the gun on the turret maybe put a flag in the barrel then raise it ?