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| I started out by sketching out the CPU at its highest level of abstraction and deciding how many very large boxes I needed to acquire. I then determined what exactly went into each upper-level box and what subset of those things I wanted to also give boxes to. | I started out by sketching out the CPU at its highest level of abstraction and deciding how many very large boxes I needed to acquire. I then determined what exactly went into each upper-level box and what subset of those things I wanted to also give boxes to. | ||
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| Then I got a ton of boxes and some art supplies. | Then I got a ton of boxes and some art supplies. | ||
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| In the end I decided on the following boxes: | In the end I decided on the following boxes: | ||
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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)\\ | ||
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