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====Work Plan==== | ====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. | 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. | 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. | 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)\\ | 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)\\ | Saturday Dec 7th - Decide which operations will be shown and how (1 hour)\\ |