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Return to top of page · Post #: 1 · Written at 8:32:48 PM on 19 July 2015.
	Art Location: Somewhere, USA Member since 22 October 2013 Member #: 1437 Postcount: 896
Hi Guys We all know modern electronics is crap, so I decided to make a 64 bit core memory for practical use in a micro controller project The intention is to store a pair of 32 bit floats containing a last known geo-location for use with Astronomy calculations in case the GPS cannot get a current position fix. The YouTube software demo shows first, a demo of converting 64 bits to a pair of floats as if read in serially as it will be from the memory. The second part just increments the pair of floats and converts them back to a bit array as will need to happen to write floats back to the memory. Cheers, Art. Image Link Image Link Software Driver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YirR9WHJN5w

Return to top of page · Post #: 2 · Written at 10:15:26 AM on 28 July 2015.
	Art Location: Somewhere, USA Member since 22 October 2013 Member #: 1437 Postcount: 896
That’s seems a long time ago... I just finished the current driver section. Image Link Image Link

Return to top of page · Post #: 3 · Written at 11:32:13 AM on 5 August 2015.
	Art Location: Somewhere, USA Member since 22 October 2013 Member #: 1437 Postcount: 896
And done Sense receiver toroid: Image Link Sense receiver assembly viewed from what will be the rear: Image Link Lower shift registers: Image Link Marline wire lacing on upper (latched) shift register board: Image Link Completed Modules: Image Link Image Link

Return to top of page · Post #: 4 · Written at 10:43:09 PM on 22 August 2015.
	Art Location: Somewhere, USA Member since 22 October 2013 Member #: 1437 Postcount: 896
Hi Guys Well I finally finished it, and added serial terminal support which makes for a good demo. The video shows writing eight bytes at a time, and demonstrates how a permanent magnet can be used to corrupt the data by waving it around the core pane. Cheers, Art. Image link: Image Link YouTube demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8wXkI-mQBE

Return to top of page · Post #: 5 · Written at 12:55:42 PM on 1 September 2015.
	Redxm Location: Tamworth, NSW Member since 6 April 2012 Member #: 1126 Postcount: 466
Congratulations on getting the project on Hack a day. http://hackaday.com/2015/08/31/core-memory-for-the-hard-core/

Return to top of page · Post #: 6 · Written at 11:34:02 PM on 7 September 2015.
	Art Location: Somewhere, USA Member since 22 October 2013 Member #: 1437 Postcount: 896
Thanks I think that is my sixth I've almost finished my core ROM as well to go with it (64 bytes). It stores the geo-locations of Australian capital cities. The core ROM, it's simpler, but I don't think anyone has ever done it.

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