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 ====Work Plan====
-**Goal**
+**Goal**\\
 To create a physical display that explains what a CPU does and how it works. There will be several nested black boxes (IRL) and each one will be labeled with a description explaining what goes on inside of that black box. The largest box will be the CPU as a whole and the smallest black boxes will be the simple gates. The audience for these descriptions will be a parent or sibling that doesn’t know anything about computer architecture.
 I would also like to show some simple operations taking place in the CPU, preferably user-controlled. I could have a knob or series of buttons that activated a different set of lights through the display depending on the operation, or it could be as simple as using different colors of yarn for different operations with careful labeling.
-**Final demo**
+**Final demo**\\
 The above display with a short presentation that I could give at expo explaining what a CPU is and why Computer Architecture is so cool.
-**Rough Schedule**
+**Rough Schedule**\\
 Wednesday Dec 4th - Have “schematic” of entire system, begin procuring boxes (2 hours)\\
 Saturday Dec 7th - Decide which operations will be shown and how (1 hour)\\
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 ==== Work Plan Reflection ====
+I massively mis-judged this project. Not only did I want to include all of the possible detail on every level of abstraction, but I also wanted to have non-trivial user control over information flow, both of which turned out to be harder than they seemed.
+As far as the schedule goes, the order I laid out for myself did not end up to be effective either. I did come up with the schematic first, but the rest was dictated by the boxes that I had available to me, so I built the project module-by-module rather than writing all the descriptions and then putting them on the boxes. I also mis-judged how long it would take to assemble something of this scale, so instead of taking 4 hours to put it all together, it took me at least 20 total. Therefore, I was unable to implement the user-controlled data path following through the system.
+I also did not judge how far apart Monday and Thursday are in finals week, so instead of having my whole project done by Monday, I only had 1.5 modules done by that point. Therefore, I was unable to give the type of presentation that I had anticipated giving during the final block for CompArch.
-Include everything necessary to pick up where you left off. This should include:
+I did implement a basic version of what I had planned to do, and I did learn a lot doing it, so overall I'd call my project a success. I was just not super accurate in my original work plan.
- Code
- Schematics
- build instructions
- A list of difficulties and ‘gotchas’ while doing this project
- Work Plan reflection
- A possible TODO to extend the depth of the project

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