• 2019 Member of the Year
  
• 2019 Newcomer of the Year
  
• 2019 Project of the Year
  

Hi everyone, my name is Rolanda and I am new on here. It look a really cool forum so I decided to join.

So I thought I'd post a thread about this because hey, it's nifty and pretty useful.


what you see here is the UJI or Ultimate Joystick interface.

It's a programmable logic controller that's specifically designed to take analog and digital inputs (which you set via resistors)>
up to 10 of them, and convert them into a generic joystick which works via USB.

originally designed to convert old hardware to new standards this wonderful little device can actually be used to design your own interface setups for stuff like custom flight cockpits, DIY joysticks, and other wonderful things, on the cheap no less.

you can get it here: https://backofficeshow.com/shop/ultimate...-interface

now while I haven't messed with one of these personally I've done similar work using Arduinos, raspberry pi's, and other hardware and can confirm that yeah this is a pretty great little device, just wish it had more inputs but what makes this one really special is that it's designed to reduce input lag by running at 40hz and responding faster than you can.

honestly I'm thinking about picking a few up to see how they work for some custom control interface panel upgrades.

just remember, the chip is write once so once you get it setup it's meant to stay, and you'll have to save a config file but once you do that you're good to go.

confirmed to work with most software that supports generic joystick inputs like elite dangerous, various racing games, emulators, etc.

hats off to those brilliant madmen across the pond, they once again lead the charge in making DIY more accessible.

You might think that designing CPUs involves literally drawing out each transistor by hand. This, as it turns out, has not been the case for several decades. Rather, something called HDL (hardware description language) does this instead. For the designer, they merely design the chip at (roughly) the gate level, creating modules that perform functionality that can be re-used and tied together to form a CPU. This is harder than assembly language, but far easier than designing it by hand. 

In other words, there is literally a language that people use to design circuits. We haven't needed to do these by hand in a long, long time. 

Last year, I used something called Nand2Tetris (an educational tool designed to teach CPU fundamentals) to "design" (read: followed the instructions) a CPU from scratch. It was incredibly educational in a lot of ways. The tool has its own form of HDL that allows you to design an extremely simple 16 bit CPU from the ground up, literally gate-by-gate. The instructions are simple enough that someone with no experience could easily complete it within about two days or so. 

Now, I'm taking on the next challenge, and giving myself a year to do it. I'm going to redesign the same CPU in 8-bit form using real, industry standard languages: Verilog. This is what Intel and AMD and all of the other large companies use. 


Ideally, I would like to use 7400 series ICs (mostly adders, chips with NAND gates, and flip flop circuits) to actually implement the design on a real circuit board. This is probably biting off more than I can chew, so at the time, I'm just going to design it in software. This could be either very simple, or I could get carried away with it. Either way, it will be good experience, and I'll be posting progress here as I make new additions to the design. 

Has anyone attempted this before? If so, did you manage to translate the HDL implementation to a real hardware implementation?

Saw the only existing Post Activity plugin for MyBB was an old version from 1.6. Did some work and made it for MyBB 1.8.

https://community.mybb.com/mods.php?acti...w&pid=1322

hi

made a video of my travels in 2019, would greatly appreciate it if you could check it out
(if you watch, please watch all the way through, it really helps)

Hi everyone, i'm new here and very excited to join this forum. My friend Guardian recommended checking out this place and it looks very interesting so far

Hello my name is NealCaffrey. 
Found this forum because a friend of mine told me about it.

So, I bought this early access game on Steam, and I can't stop playing it. It's still got bugs, and still needs some work, but its already a masterpiece:

Quote:Experience the frontier as a chief of a Native American tribe and resist the onset of the settlers. Explore the vast world full of hostile humans and animals while defining your narrative through the decisions you make. Survive, hunt, craft, unite and lead the tribes to take back your lands. 

I'm considering wiping my PC yet again and I can usually get down my 'essential' software within a few minutes. After that, I focus on getting all my dev shit down and sorted nicely.

So what are your usual editors/toolchains/IDEs that you install whenever building back up?

Windows:
Text Editor:

• VS Code
  
• EmEditor
  

• CLion (C/C++)
  
• GoLand (Go)
  
• IntelliJ (Java)
  
• Visual Studio (.Net, some C/C++ related stuff too.)
  
• Arduino (Arduino)
  
• Keil uVision (microvision) (Embedded applications in C, MDK)
  
• Gnat/GPS (Ada)
  

• STM32cubeMX (Code generator for STM32 boards)
  
• Fritzing (Schematics)
  
• Choco/NuGet (Package Managers)
  
• Git
  

• Node
  
• MinGW (C/C++)
  
• Non-VB/C# VisualStudio packages (F#, linux, etc.)
  

• VS Code
  
• nvim
  
• Atom (ONLY if VS Code isn't supported on the target without overlays, AKA Gentoo)
  

• Arduino
  
• mBed (not installed, just what I use.)
  

• Git
  

• Node
  
• GCC family