I built my own graphics card

Ғылым және технология

hope this baby can mine me some bitcoin
TWITTER: / jdah__
PATREON: / jdah
CODE: github.com/jdah/jdh-8
EDITOR: NeoVim
VIMRC: gist.github.com/jdah/4b4d98c2...
THEME: palenight
CIRCUIT DESIGNER: Logisim-Evolution (github.com/logisim-evolution/...)
RESOURCES:
The Elements of Computing Systems by Noam Nisan and Shimon Schocken
@BenEater 's Channel: / eaterbc
@Esperantanaso 's DUO Adept: • An 8-Bit TTL CPU + GPU

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  • @yourboiivan
    @yourboiivan2 жыл бұрын

    Now I realize what a dog understands when a human speaks with it

  • @tf_d

    @tf_d

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ahhh this comment is great.

  • @justmeyeah-ce7wr

    @justmeyeah-ce7wr

    2 жыл бұрын

    words of wisdom

  • @sup-dp4bh

    @sup-dp4bh

    2 жыл бұрын

    wise words

  • @stare4539

    @stare4539

    2 жыл бұрын

    Lmao

  • @Scaramouche122

    @Scaramouche122

    2 жыл бұрын

    wise you are smart

  • @jackb4
    @jackb42 жыл бұрын

    This man single handedly solved the graphics card shortage. What a legend.

  • @awli8861

    @awli8861

    2 жыл бұрын

    Nope, this is not processing anything, it just takes data and "show" them.

  • @moimoi9995

    @moimoi9995

    2 жыл бұрын

    This is not a GPU, it does not compute. It just shows some already existing images.

  • @ImXyper

    @ImXyper

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@moimoi9995 r/woooosh

  • @ImXyper

    @ImXyper

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@awli8861 r/woooosh

  • @awli8861

    @awli8861

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ImXyper r/maybestfuandwritecommentwithsense

  • @gauribadukale2397
    @gauribadukale2397 Жыл бұрын

    It just commendable how unimaginably complex these things are props to the engineers who designed them. Respect

  • @hansdampf6249
    @hansdampf62496 ай бұрын

    Dude writes his own game engines, makes minecraft from scratch, builds his own graphic cards and at the same time looks like a model

  • @Ni7ram

    @Ni7ram

    5 ай бұрын

    man... wtf. this guy shouldnt exist

  • @rubyciide5542

    @rubyciide5542

    4 ай бұрын

    God sure has favorites

  • @icankickflipok

    @icankickflipok

    3 ай бұрын

    @@rubyciide5542hell, reading genesis will tell you that much.

  • @jackkraus6948

    @jackkraus6948

    2 ай бұрын

    Gotta say the face reveal surprised me lol, not sure what I was expecting but that was not it

  • @Finkelfunk

    @Finkelfunk

    2 ай бұрын

    At this point I am like 96% sure this dude must be either 1,62m or have a VERY tiny thing to work with. Otherwise it's over for us.

  • @LBSiUK
    @LBSiUK2 жыл бұрын

    He's gonna build an entire PC company from scratch at this rate.

  • @jdh

    @jdh

    2 жыл бұрын

    watch out tim apple I'm comin for you

  • @LBSiUK

    @LBSiUK

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jdh Introducing jdhsilicon. Also awesome video by the way.

  • @DaniSC_real

    @DaniSC_real

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jdh made PC from nothing

  • @dorkle9085

    @dorkle9085

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jdh Bill Microsoft is gonna come and microchip ya XD

  • @jkr9594

    @jkr9594

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jdh nah, you'v allready surpased them in build quality. (:

  • @laurencevanhelsuwe3052
    @laurencevanhelsuwe30522 жыл бұрын

    I'm a 55-yr old software engineer, and this video is one of the coolest I've seen on YT for ages. Loads of respect for your beginner's guts. This is how real engineers are made.

  • @bloxcodes6576

    @bloxcodes6576

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ben eater

  • @puppergump4117

    @puppergump4117

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@bloxcodes6576 One who eats Bens

  • @DaVince21

    @DaVince21

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@puppergump4117 Ben Heck had better watch out then!

  • @bkz6133

    @bkz6133

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@puppergump4117 😂No Ben Eater has his own series of making a cpu, making a 8bit computer and making a graphics card. All from scratch.

  • @laurencevanhelsuwe3052

    @laurencevanhelsuwe3052

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@kreuner11 I have now. THANKS

  • @nezbrun872
    @nezbrun8722 жыл бұрын

    I designed and built a number of GPUs out of TTL in the 70s, although we called then VDUs back then. It's interesting to see your approach... I can see you're a software guy! One of the engineering challenges back in the mid 70s was to use the minimum number of chips. Also back then we didn't have any chips beyond 7419x. The cheapest counters were the 7490 and 7493. Also RAM was expensive. The designs typical of the day used 256 visible pixels across and 256 visible pixels down, 320 by 320 including front & back porches plus vertical blanking period. Using a 5MHz clock, this gave the 15625Hz Hsync frequency. The Vsync works out at about 48.8Hz, good enough. Divide by 320 is achieved with 7493 binary counters configured as div-by-32, plus a 7490 div-by-10. When the MSB goes high, that's the blanking periods. Sync timing is achieved with 74123 monostables: digital comparators massively increases chip count. Instead of a complete memory mapped display (remember RAM was expensive), we used character generator ROMs. These presented 8 pixels at a time, which went into a shift register either a 74165 or 74166 from memory. At 5MHz, the character time of 8 pixels is 8/5MHz = 1.6us, which was easily achievable with the ~450ns RAM and ROM we had back then. For the CPU to access the RAM, we need to multiplex the CPU's address bus with the 749x counters. This was done with 74157s. When the CPU needed to access the RAM, it took precedence over the counters, so you'd get snow on the screen during CPU accesses. Including the RAM (8 x 2102) and character generator, maybe 30 chips in total. I was a 12yo school kid at the time when I designed my first one, no oscilloscope, just an analog multimeter and an LED for debugging.

  • @jdh

    @jdh

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ah I never knew 74123s existed! That would have been nice - comparators are the bulk of this circuit and take up 2.5 boards on their own. next time :)

  • @minecraftify95

    @minecraftify95

    2 жыл бұрын

    you forgot hardware

  • @saadmanomar7754

    @saadmanomar7754

    2 жыл бұрын

    Building a GPU at 12yo! I am stunned.

  • @turolretar

    @turolretar

    Жыл бұрын

    I built one while in my mother’s womb. I remember doctors being really confused when the first thing to come out was not me, but the GPU I made. Good times...

  • @nolejd50

    @nolejd50

    Жыл бұрын

    I don't understand anything you wrote. 🤣

  • @sargates
    @sargates2 жыл бұрын

    7:26 was the only part i kind of understood because of my entry level redstone knowledge

  • @e30m3bimmer
    @e30m3bimmer2 жыл бұрын

    "i built a pc" "what graphics card you using?" "i BUILT the graphics card." "but what about the cpu?" "i BUILT the cpu."

  • @1R1SHMAN04

    @1R1SHMAN04

    2 жыл бұрын

    What about the Operating System?

  • @bootyfart1569

    @bootyfart1569

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@1R1SHMAN04 kzread.info/dash/bejne/eJV9rtCmhby5j7g.html

  • @jmemusic

    @jmemusic

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@bootyfart1569 lol, he literally did.

  • @wmurray003

    @wmurray003

    2 жыл бұрын

    "What about the programming language?"

  • @bashguy8448

    @bashguy8448

    2 жыл бұрын

    "What about the motherboard?" "yes."

  • @ezr3n
    @ezr3n2 жыл бұрын

    "I'm terribly unqualified to build something like this." - I don't think that feeling ever really goes away.

  • @SKC_car

    @SKC_car

    2 жыл бұрын

    working on cars, electronics, electrical stuff and code; i can reasure this, the feeling never goes away

  • @KushagraPratap

    @KushagraPratap

    2 жыл бұрын

    Agreed

  • @oksowhat

    @oksowhat

    2 жыл бұрын

    if he is terribly unqualified for this then we are not even humans

  • @ukaszb9223

    @ukaszb9223

    2 жыл бұрын

    the term is impostor syndrome, in case someone doesn't know

  • @animus2653

    @animus2653

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ukaszb9223 Sorry, you made a mistake. impostor syndrome is when someone is completely convinced their loved ones and/or friends have been replaced by people that want to hurt them, in oversimplified terms.

  • @XindiMagic
    @XindiMagic2 жыл бұрын

    This was a really fascinating video, I enjoyed it immensely. I enjoy tech content a lot but building a graphics card from scratch. Wow. I liked and subbed. Going to watch your "making Minecraft from scratch in 48 hours" video next.

  • @DeathxStrike18
    @DeathxStrike182 жыл бұрын

    Usually the rule of thumb is you use one 104 capacitor for ever chip you have on the breadboard to help distribute power along the board so you get even power draw. Also Ben eater made a working color graphics card on a bread board you may want to check out.

  • @Techtast

    @Techtast

    7 ай бұрын

    NOTE:Bean eater made a VGA Card not a composite video card

  • @syllight9053
    @syllight90532 жыл бұрын

    He's *literally* gonna reinvent the wheel at this rate.

  • @bloxcodes6576

    @bloxcodes6576

    2 жыл бұрын

    He just copied ben eater's video card

  • @crusaderanimation6967

    @crusaderanimation6967

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@bloxcodes6576 Well he at least had to to modify it since Ben used VGA. But i did not gone into understanding jdh design so idk.

  • @jelle8055

    @jelle8055

    2 жыл бұрын

    Why do you think that? I don't think he copied it...

  • @bloxcodes6576

    @bloxcodes6576

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jelle8055 He did the same as ben eater, used a different layout and a adapter

  • @jelle8055

    @jelle8055

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@bloxcodes6576 different layout as in wiring or the physical layout of the location of the ic's? (I don't remember the layout of the original design, because it's quite a while back i watched that vid)

  • @the_dark_jumper2211
    @the_dark_jumper22112 жыл бұрын

    Me after a month of work: "Yup, still busy refactoring code." jdh after the same time: "So anyway, I've built a graphics card"

  • @jawad9757

    @jawad9757

    2 жыл бұрын

    *pain*

  • @albertoedgar831

    @albertoedgar831

    Жыл бұрын

    @enrique amaya ok bot same awnser on different comment

  • @pachow3977
    @pachow39772 жыл бұрын

    I lost it when I saw the jungle of wires. I am really starting to appreciate how difficult it must be to manufacture graphics cards. Shoutout to all the engineers that work on this area.

  • @chrism7574

    @chrism7574

    Жыл бұрын

    Engineers in this kind of field don't have to really deal with routing. It's all software. If you can write Tcl, you can implement a design if you have access to the right software.

  • @Loewe8
    @Loewe8 Жыл бұрын

    I rewatched this waaay too often but not because I understand anything but just these small voicecracks here and there im obsessed

  • @yuri0001
    @yuri00012 жыл бұрын

    Developing methodology: Ben Eater: Lawful neutral jgh: chaotic good.

  • @SomeNot

    @SomeNot

    2 жыл бұрын

    Sam Zeloof?

  • @SarahIsWeird

    @SarahIsWeird

    2 жыл бұрын

    I feel like ben eater is more like lawful good

  • @juangerardoruelasjr6517

    @juangerardoruelasjr6517

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@SomeNot sam Zelof is chaotic neutral

  • @rhebucks_zh

    @rhebucks_zh

    2 жыл бұрын

    NFTs: Lawful Evil

  • @georgeapelgren2157
    @georgeapelgren21572 жыл бұрын

    GPU's are getting so expensive, people are starting to build them on their own.

  • @ebrilliantuwaahhh

    @ebrilliantuwaahhh

    2 жыл бұрын

    relatable, technically not literally

  • @Sparkette

    @Sparkette

    2 жыл бұрын

    That's just a graphics card; it doesn't have a GPU.

  • @dominikmazurek753

    @dominikmazurek753

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Sparkette Graphics card is not a graphics card without GPU, so what do you mean?

  • @relaxandworkflow768

    @relaxandworkflow768

    2 жыл бұрын

    This is the time to start thinking how to build mine due to the Cost of GPU

  • @dominikmazurek753

    @dominikmazurek753

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@relaxandworkflow768 the prices are going down though

  • @bouzidabdelhamid
    @bouzidabdelhamid2 жыл бұрын

    i like what you do man ... keep going ... congrats ... never knew that it was possible to do it this way, thaks a lot and BRAVOOO !!

  • @vancevoj1872
    @vancevoj18722 жыл бұрын

    In an electronics class, and I loved this video! It was awesome for me because I understood literally everything. We build lots of stuff like this on digital trainers. Keep up videos like this!

  • @YashKumar-yh7qv

    @YashKumar-yh7qv

    Жыл бұрын

    Hey man could you help me out understanding this and share some resources…I was thinking myself to build something like this for my microprocessor class's project

  • @jbritain
    @jbritain2 жыл бұрын

    Ah yes, my bi monthly episode of making me feel like an idiot

  • @watchableraven3517

    @watchableraven3517

    2 жыл бұрын

    And for free!

  • @OriFrish

    @OriFrish

    2 жыл бұрын

    As if Sebastian Lague wasn't enough =/

  • @rafaelmenna8384

    @rafaelmenna8384

    Жыл бұрын

    It’s not nuclear physics.

  • @Noname-67

    @Noname-67

    Жыл бұрын

    @@rafaelmenna8384 nuclear physics begin in late 19th early 20th century, the first graphic card wasn't created until late 1980s.

  • @rafaelmenna8384

    @rafaelmenna8384

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Noname-67 my KZread account wasn’t created in September what is your point?

  • @nanda_8
    @nanda_82 жыл бұрын

    Teacher : So dear students, let's learn how to write hello world program today 😄 Quiet kid sitting at the last row of the class:

  • @cosmq

    @cosmq

    2 жыл бұрын

    Same, im that kid, we where geting started and i started to make snake in cpp because i had already done the simple cout lines and i was bored so i said why not?😂😂

  • @shadowsandfire
    @shadowsandfire Жыл бұрын

    This is a sweet project, kinda makes me wanna delve into it myself, i love how it looks at present its soo cyberpunk style, id make a frame for the screen and just mount all the bread boards round it and enjoy it how it is, the ultimate is design a pcb i guess, a very cool project none the less! Thanks for sharing!

  • @bholla-fm7iq
    @bholla-fm7iq2 жыл бұрын

    Love your vids bc I love to figure out how things work at their core, I am also majoring in electronics engineering so I have like you built a computer on breadboards

  • @nullFoo
    @nullFoo2 жыл бұрын

    SMH didn't even mine the metal yourself, 3/10

  • @bootyfart1569

    @bootyfart1569

    2 жыл бұрын

    next video is going to be him stripping himself of clothing, wiping his memory, relearning everything he has ever learned from scratch, punching a tree to get wood, making a pickaxe, mining stone, making a stone pick, getting iron, making an iron pic, mining all the stuff he needs to build a pc, then building it, making his own os, making his own internet, and then playing pong

  • @satwiksahu486

    @satwiksahu486

    2 жыл бұрын

    Next we know he is gonna make a planet sized supercomputer on minecraft

  • @akkico

    @akkico

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@satwiksahu486 and a fireplace after that

  • @5UH9VQLVE5

    @5UH9VQLVE5

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@bootyfart1569 way to kill your own joke

  • @quidquopro1185

    @quidquopro1185

    2 жыл бұрын

    No bewbs, 2/10

  • @bob-ji7ks
    @bob-ji7ks2 жыл бұрын

    this is some fucking giga-nerd level shit and i love it

  • @maximumrisk2004
    @maximumrisk20042 жыл бұрын

    Its amazing how far you got. I am seriously interrested in learning this stuff, but fear at 35 I am way to late to properly learn it or even do something with it.

  • @joseperalta9364

    @joseperalta9364

    Жыл бұрын

    Instead of just telling you that it is never too late, let me remind you that at 35 you still have 25 years of productivity (before retirement that is), even if you took 5 years to figure out what to do with it you would have two whole decades to spare. Better learn, and find out.

  • @PH5221

    @PH5221

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@Jose Peralta 25 years from 35 years? You must live in a country with a sane retirement age. Some countries have a retirement age close to 70 now.

  • @JosephSaintClair
    @JosephSaintClair2 жыл бұрын

    Been loving your channel lately. Reminds me of me 25 years ago! Thank you for what you are doing 🙏

  • @pielewin
    @pielewin2 жыл бұрын

    When this saga started: "damn, this dude must be a really competent functional programmer" Now: "yay, mental flagellation time!"

  • @alpsalish

    @alpsalish

    8 ай бұрын

    ​@@enriqueamaya3883Jesus, leave everyone alone.

  • @krazine
    @krazine2 жыл бұрын

    Cant wait for when he makes a quantum computer from scratch like 8 episodes from now

  • @coffeebug

    @coffeebug

    2 жыл бұрын

    Recommended from jdh: i built a bomb

  • @fantaniac638

    @fantaniac638

    2 жыл бұрын

    Recommended from jdh: i built a nuclear reactor

  • @DumStrung

    @DumStrung

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@fantaniac638 "in a cave... with a bunch of scrap!"

  • @Domtronic
    @Domtronic2 жыл бұрын

    Extremely impressive my guy. You're on your way. Please don't give up and keep it up!

  • @h7opolo
    @h7opolo Жыл бұрын

    0:53 i never knew what was inside the black box of a microprocessor! thank you for enlightening me.

  • @nihal74321
    @nihal743212 жыл бұрын

    can't wait to see you make your own ssd. No doubt faster and at a higher capacity than anything currently on the market

  • @YOEL_44

    @YOEL_44

    2 жыл бұрын

    His GPU has the features of a 90's Nokia and the footprint of a whole desk, with the specs you're asking, you'll probably need 2 trailers to store the SSD, this turns it from a storage solution to a storage problem

  • @nihal74321

    @nihal74321

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@YOEL_44 I don't see a problem with that

  • @Henrix1998

    @Henrix1998

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@YOEL_44 I'm fairly certain that 3310 has waayyy less performance. It has 84x48 pixels only and runs maybe 30fps if even that. Of course completely different display technology but the data/second is much less

  • @PainterVierax

    @PainterVierax

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@YOEL_44 That. And no need to use TTL since there are a lot of 80's and 90's specialized 2D hardware chips to salvage. Any cheap ARM or RISCV chip provides more. This is just an overly complicated exercise in style. Also making an intro comparing this to actual "GPU" without taking into account that actual graphics cards aren't just 2D GPU but 3D, video and computing too is a bit silly.

  • @itsame7385

    @itsame7385

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@YOEL_44 his solo and dont seem to know shit about how to make a gpu sooo his a legend

  • @itzmeB2
    @itzmeB22 жыл бұрын

    Me who can't even emulate a CHIP 8 watching him make a computer from scratch: 👁️👄👁️

  • @NStripleseven

    @NStripleseven

    2 жыл бұрын

    me who doesn’t know what a CHIP 8 is

  • @itzmeB2

    @itzmeB2

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@NStripleseven I don't have anything funny to say to that lol

  • @YOEL_44

    @YOEL_44

    2 жыл бұрын

    I'm happy to succesfully write a 2 line batch

  • @itzmeB2

    @itzmeB2

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@YOEL_44 lol

  • @seanld444

    @seanld444

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@itzmeB2 me who doesn't have anything funny to say to that

  • @flochristim9316
    @flochristim93162 жыл бұрын

    I loved the Video. That was very interesting and strangely addicting. But nobody is talking about how you sadi the Errors at 13:44 were clipping, grey lines and data errors but not "GRAPHNCS CARD" :D Also, huge props for even attemping such a hard project.

  • @snowiecore

    @snowiecore

    Жыл бұрын

    GRAPHNCS CARD lmfaooo

  • @bipolarmethod1236
    @bipolarmethod1236 Жыл бұрын

    I freaking love this, I’m a newbie to all of this but love your work, your are such a freaking cool dude and would love to learn from someone like you😮😮😮

  • @divideby4billion
    @divideby4billion2 жыл бұрын

    This man is on a whole new level of Technology Edit: People are correcting me on my sentence. Yes, it isn't a new level of te tech. I made the comment when I was half awake.

  • @awuuwa

    @awuuwa

    2 жыл бұрын

    is it really a new nevel tho?

  • @Kynatosh

    @Kynatosh

    2 жыл бұрын

    It isn't new level He is on the next level of genius tho

  • @shelletonianhuman

    @shelletonianhuman

    2 жыл бұрын

    An older level*

  • @jetison333

    @jetison333

    2 жыл бұрын

    It's a very new level of technology, just not really a good one :)

  • @DR-7

    @DR-7

    2 жыл бұрын

    Tecnically? He is using a new metode to make old stuff. And guess what? Eletric cars are just a new metod to make gas cars. This man is on another level of levels

  • @avischetlin
    @avischetlin2 жыл бұрын

    Super cool, I've been very interested in graphics processing lately as it's definitely one of those technologies that's always been "magic" to me. Your drawings + explanations are super helpful, really enjoy this video format.

  • @bloxcodes6576

    @bloxcodes6576

    2 жыл бұрын

    Watch Ben eater he has 3-4 videos about it and good explaining

  • @sparky173j
    @sparky173j Жыл бұрын

    That's astonishingly impressive! Well done

  • @sunnykamkam3128
    @sunnykamkam31282 жыл бұрын

    You’re so cool! That’s an awesome project! Hats off to you!

  • @Cookieglue
    @Cookieglue2 жыл бұрын

    This video is pure gold. It's so educational yet engaging and damn you did a great job. I haven't seen a video that made me this hyped for electrical engineering in ages

  • @denis-papinkodjoviakakpo9766
    @denis-papinkodjoviakakpo97662 жыл бұрын

    Jdh love your work 🤗 what are you going to build next ? an electron ?

  • @plebisMaximus

    @plebisMaximus

    2 жыл бұрын

    My money's on an intercontinental ballistic missile.

  • @themuffincat

    @themuffincat

    2 жыл бұрын

    Quantum computer

  • @ebrilliantuwaahhh

    @ebrilliantuwaahhh

    2 жыл бұрын

    atom probably

  • @sai4fun

    @sai4fun

    2 жыл бұрын

    time Machine ❤️

  • @carnifex2232

    @carnifex2232

    2 жыл бұрын

    Perpetual motion machine

  • @henrydorsett6076
    @henrydorsett60762 жыл бұрын

    14:25 cheers man. The sort of pitfall many coders like me not knowing too much of electronics would also fall into. Still an awesome tinker project, love it.

  • @dannygonsalez27
    @dannygonsalez27 Жыл бұрын

    The animations are legendary. Love this video...

  • @logangraham2956
    @logangraham29562 жыл бұрын

    it doesn't matter that they are "5V LEDs" resistors don't limit voltage they limit current.

  • @sayethwe8683

    @sayethwe8683

    2 жыл бұрын

    voltage is pushed, current is pulled. more or less.

  • @asamanthinketh5944

    @asamanthinketh5944

    2 жыл бұрын

    They do limit voltage Voltage at LED would be r_led*V/(r_led+r_resistor ) Hence when you increase r_resistor then voltage will decrease ... Simple maffs

  • @onescaryapothiconboi7475

    @onescaryapothiconboi7475

    Ай бұрын

    Resistors in series limit voltage. Resistors in parallel limit amperage.

  • @The1Wolfcast
    @The1Wolfcast2 жыл бұрын

    Ben eater has met his match lol

  • @john.dough.

    @john.dough.

    2 жыл бұрын

    this is super impressive but ben eater is still at another level

  • @ropersonline
    @ropersonline Жыл бұрын

    2:32: "a colour blast or something"

  • @kennethbeal
    @kennethbeal Жыл бұрын

    Nice, a young Ben Eater! :) Subbed.

  • @spark198rus
    @spark198rus2 жыл бұрын

    When TSMC says that will raise the prices by 20%:

  • @aidan7913
    @aidan79132 жыл бұрын

    Still making absolutely incredible content. Hands down one my favorite channels.

  • @masondaub9201
    @masondaub92012 жыл бұрын

    I tried to build something similar that used the VGA standard. I only got as far as the timing signal generation and pixel counters, because although it all worked, if I even breathed on it, it would stop working for some reason or another. I think the counters I used didn't like the extra capacitance in the breadboards. It was a great feeling measuring all the timings with my scope and seeing it match perfectly with the VGA standard. If I was going to continue I would have needed to build it all on proto board with magnet wire like my z80 computer. I never bothered making a schematic diagram though so it wasn't worth continuing. You did fantastic for never doing any electronics before

  • @ChronicGamerBoy
    @ChronicGamerBoy Жыл бұрын

    Wow. This is soo impresive!!!! People are awesome!!!!

  • @marthinwurer
    @marthinwurer2 жыл бұрын

    One thing that you could do would be to read the data from the EEPROM into a shift register and shift the bits out to display them. Shift registers are way faster than memory lookups, and are what is used for things like PCIe and Ethernet signals.

  • @adamw.8579

    @adamw.8579

    2 жыл бұрын

    And really early CP/M text only machines works in that manner. Just data from slow 2114 P-MOS RAM addressed character ROM and output from ROM was shifted to video output. Other ROM address lines were given from counters. All works on TTL LS chips, except shift register - it was TTL-S type.

  • @KayJay01
    @KayJay012 жыл бұрын

    It is indeed pronounced like "pal" :) BTW that's dependant on region, Europe uses PAL mostly, while North America (and some of middle/south America) uses NTSC. SEMAC is also in use in some areas of Europe and Asia

  • @TheBcoolGuy

    @TheBcoolGuy

    2 жыл бұрын

    Japan use PAL, I think.

  • @gr33n39

    @gr33n39

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@TheBcoolGuy both NTSC and PAL, if I recall correctly. It depends on who set up the electricity in that part of the country.

  • @talibong9518

    @talibong9518

    2 жыл бұрын

    SECAM not SEMAC, it was/is used in french territories. Japan use NTSC but their equipment can handle PAL

  • @andremarques4063

    @andremarques4063

    2 жыл бұрын

    south america is mainly ntsc because we import everything from the US

  • @CanuckGod

    @CanuckGod

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@gr33n39 No... Japan uses NTSC only, much like North America.

  • @dawsonharris5735
    @dawsonharris57352 жыл бұрын

    Dang, your comedic editing is great! Not too much, just enough!

  • @techwizsmith7963
    @techwizsmith79632 жыл бұрын

    I saw a bunch of if-elses in that montage, how dare. Great video, really enjoyed the build

  • @dr.downvote
    @dr.downvote2 жыл бұрын

    I can blindly admire anyone who even thinks that they can do this stuff and sets themselves to do this because the confidence levels and the courage are more important than the end result

  • @EvilRamin
    @EvilRamin2 жыл бұрын

    Love your work!

  • @reeceryan1600
    @reeceryan16002 жыл бұрын

    man the way the a's get displayed just... looks really fuckin cool

  • @ig-rd5923
    @ig-rd59232 жыл бұрын

    I did somthing like this in a game that simulates logic gates (scrap mechanic), obviously, that is easier as I don't need to care about voltage ground, power source, and that kind of stuff, and it was 15x15 pixels, and I got to make up all my own video data standards and stuff. It had like 1 fps with the smallest possible image data in my standard. This is a really cool project though, and it is super interesting to see someone build it irl. I can recommend scrap mechanic to you, obviously, it is more satisfying to see a result in real life than in a game, but I think you could have a lot of fun building stuff in it, and it might even be a good place to simulate your circuits before you spend money on your stuff in real life. It doesn't have stuff like memory ICEs, but you could simply make them with regular logic, and copy-paste them however many times you want.

  • @nugget6644
    @nugget66442 жыл бұрын

    This is so impressive. Can you imagine how hard famous GPU manufacturers work to achieve today's graphics, if it took you so much to create something so "basic"

  • @nugget6644

    @nugget6644

    2 жыл бұрын

    @R R yeah, you have a point. I didn't think about that when i wrote my comment.

  • @smoothbraindetainer

    @smoothbraindetainer

    2 жыл бұрын

    Well considering this isn't even a graphics card, yes. That's why it's only multibillion dollar companies that can even be competitive in the silicon engineering space

  • @BizVlogs

    @BizVlogs

    Жыл бұрын

    Well all he did was buy stuff from the store and put it together. Actual companies don’t do that, they make the components themselves.

  • @somekindofdude1130

    @somekindofdude1130

    Жыл бұрын

    @@BizVlogs no they actually huy the components from another company

  • @tookitogo

    @tookitogo

    Жыл бұрын

    @@BizVlogs Only the largest companies can make their own components - and even then, it’s rare. They use off-the-shelf parts where possible, and where they need custom parts, they have a component manufacturer make a custom part for them.

  • @PASTRAMIKick
    @PASTRAMIKick2 жыл бұрын

    In Uni we used a software called Proteus for designing and simulating this kind of stuff, it looks really retro but it was fully featured.

  • @shanemoran4145

    @shanemoran4145

    2 жыл бұрын

    I use proteus in my IT

  • @djohannsson8268
    @djohannsson8268 Жыл бұрын

    clock latch the output of the EPROM. So your actually addressing the eprom and fetching the next bit, while displaying the latched previous bit, that gives the EPROM the most time to settle, the latch "will" hold that settled output for full clock time. You may need to tweak when the clock happens to get a perfect output, but once found...

  • @marcdraco2189
    @marcdraco2189 Жыл бұрын

    Sweet lord - I hope those jumpers don't randomly snap! Several people have done VGA and similar with full-fidelity emulation of NES and even the BBC micro on the Pi Pico board with just a "few" external components. That's one impressive piece of wiring work I must agree. I did wonder if that bird's nest, with all of that stray capacitance was knackering your clock signals though. Very impressed though. Super piece of work.

  • @zment
    @zment2 жыл бұрын

    Generating a monochrome composite PAL signal with UNO was fun! I never got around to figuring out the color burst either, I just opted for SCART and PAL RGB. no need to try to put the colors in the color subcarrier or use a separate RGB-to-Composite chip. Translating all that to TTL is bad-ass though, well done!

  • @Rudy97
    @Rudy972 жыл бұрын

    Every LED needs a resistor or something to limit current.

  • @naelorides9180

    @naelorides9180

    2 жыл бұрын

    There are LEDs made for specific voltages (like 5V) that have the proper resistor for that voltage built in. That's probably what he meant.

  • @TheSpinia
    @TheSpinia Жыл бұрын

    I enjoy watching videos on subject and projects I'll never be able to do in my life.

  • @alexlo7708
    @alexlo7708 Жыл бұрын

    My colleague was assigned to built tele text device to mix running text onto bottom of TV screen, as a compulsory project to complete his undergrad. electric engineering degree. It was 30 yrs ago. And he ended up being retired without graduated because it's far beyond his capacity as an undergrad student then.

  • @tamsinlm
    @tamsinlm2 жыл бұрын

    Latches, my man! SN74LS573 or similar. You can use a very brief signal to latch the output from your ROM chip, thus allowing the ROM's output to stabilize before sending the next byte out. It will mean reorganizing your data on the ROM chip by about 1 byte, but that should help.

  • @skeezixcodejedi
    @skeezixcodejedi2 жыл бұрын

    This is hilarious to me, as I went down a very similar road (and same glitches and pain) 7 or 8 years back. I didn't try PAL, but NTSC... but with 'golden arches' of wrirwe mess causing interference (stray capacitance etc), it was making me nuts. I ended up switchign to VGA output, as much more widely available on monitors, and also a _really easy_ signal to generate, in black and white or colour. (Same analog range style to generate a colour or b/w). A couple years back I went FPGA to try and figure out HDMI and got that going too .. and its a lot like VGA but with some evil suppressed-information encoding at the end. Go VGA, and use Eagle or whatevere to get some PCBs printed .. doing it all in jumper wires is fun to a point, then just annoying ;) (When elecrow or jclpcb etc can give you a dozen 4" square pcbs for $10 a week or two after you place the order, its pretty nuts.) You're super awesome, love the videos.

  • @torilose
    @torilose8 ай бұрын

    That screen (4:35) is so old it looks like it's from the future.

  • @algorithminc.8850
    @algorithminc.88505 күн бұрын

    Fun channel. Subscribed. Thanks. Cheers

  • @samuelfabbrizio3047
    @samuelfabbrizio30472 жыл бұрын

    This guy deserves way more subscribers, he literally created his own computer

  • @blakescott8570
    @blakescott85702 жыл бұрын

    I absolutely love this man and wish i had a friend like him

  • @munfTastic69
    @munfTastic692 жыл бұрын

    fastest vimrc yoink of my life INSANE video, hope to see more (;

  • @randysync3573
    @randysync35732 жыл бұрын

    This video must have taken a lot of time. Great work.

  • @mcj1m_noonewillfindthis
    @mcj1m_noonewillfindthis2 жыл бұрын

    Ben Eater would be proud of you 😂

  • @vincentguttmann2231

    @vincentguttmann2231

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, I want to know what they could do if they worked together. I mean, the card Ben Eater built was a VGA CMOS card, and this is a TTL Composite card.

  • @jeanjacquesstrydom
    @jeanjacquesstrydom2 жыл бұрын

    Watching this channel is like watching evolution go backwards.... and I absolutely love it!

  • @stafomosakez
    @stafomosakez2 жыл бұрын

    Hell yeah, dope as hell. I'll need to know how to do this if I am stuck on moon or something like that.

  • @atomfilms4722
    @atomfilms47222 жыл бұрын

    jdh, congrats on 100k!

  • @Huguinskiable
    @Huguinskiable2 жыл бұрын

    Maybe using a FPGA to prototype programs instead of the Arduino would be helpful to translate to actual logic 🥴. As always, awesome job!

  • @troenxer4139
    @troenxer41392 жыл бұрын

    3 episode later : Refining materials and making my own diodes and transistor (and capacitor and resistors and wires) and remaking every electronics

  • @smikeee
    @smikeee2 жыл бұрын

    You have a great patience. Hope you don't abandon this project.

  • @zarodgaming1844
    @zarodgaming18442 жыл бұрын

    the black-white drawing I could understand perfectly

  • @f3arbhy
    @f3arbhy2 жыл бұрын

    And my first reaction was - of course you did!!

  • @NithinJune
    @NithinJune2 жыл бұрын

    1:27 I think most people pronounce it like "pal" pronounced like the word for friend. It think it's an acronym not an initialism

  • @domojestic4155
    @domojestic41552 жыл бұрын

    You could honestly make such a solid full like KZread course about programming and electrical circuits and you’d be a legend for it. Here’s hopjng

  • @catostre
    @catostre2 жыл бұрын

    Could you clarify 4:08 a bit? I get that you can program an Arduino without the ide, but what method exactly did you use to get that extra speed you needed?

  • @wChris_
    @wChris_2 жыл бұрын

    you could use an FPGA after you had your circuit layout and test it there before you buy all the ICs. In general using an FPGA instead of programming it in C might be a good idea!

  • @SethPentolope

    @SethPentolope

    2 жыл бұрын

    Can confirm. FPGAs are very useful in this way

  • @nezbrun872

    @nezbrun872

    2 жыл бұрын

    You appear to have missed the several weeks required to become proficient in an HDL and the FPGA's tool chain. More seriously, you can do all of this on $2 microcontrollers using on chip DMA and on chip timers, there's no need for FPGAs. But I found the approach to do it solely in software first was interesting if a little quaint/naive!

  • @posterizedsoul4810
    @posterizedsoul48102 жыл бұрын

    First Live stream jdh* "You unemployed or sth?"

  • @ChrisContin
    @ChrisContin Жыл бұрын

    Great job! You can use an FPGA, like I did in college for computer engineering. They are not always so expensive-- the one I was using is discontinued now but it was only $5 - $6 US. Some soldering required! But then just download the logic gates (if you've never used one before). 5 minutes from working simulation to working circuit! Keep up the great work. Also, you're very attractive! Congrats!

  • @grzesiek1x
    @grzesiek1x2 жыл бұрын

    I am glad that there are some people in this world that think in similar way to me! I hope there will be more like us 😊 I got soo annoyed when I found out how big companies manipulate people to sell more that I just had to start to build things myself really !

  • @PH5221

    @PH5221

    Жыл бұрын

    Good luck trying to put an RTX4080 together in your bedroom. There's a reason there's only a few factories in the world that make the wafers for GPUs.

  • @colonelbarker
    @colonelbarker2 жыл бұрын

    Great work, I made the Ben Eater video card not too long ago myself. Have you read the TV Tennis schematics from Popular Electronics? It produces a sync signal with a pair of 555's and a pair of NANDs in monochrome.

  • @ognotapussyslayer5917

    @ognotapussyslayer5917

    2 жыл бұрын

    That sounds fucking awesome. 555's are the fuckin best

  • @colonelbarker

    @colonelbarker

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ognotapussyslayer5917 kzread.info/dash/bejne/e6GVvJmOeNqscaw.html&ab_channel=JulianIlett Here's an example of a very similar one working.

  • @Magnogen
    @Magnogen2 жыл бұрын

    Nice. Please make that into a font, also I'd love to see something like this based in software that could be played with.

  • @mrpedrobraga

    @mrpedrobraga

    2 жыл бұрын

    Into a font?

  • @john_air
    @john_air2 жыл бұрын

    you genius bastard! amazing mate!

  • @sandybathwater8385
    @sandybathwater83852 жыл бұрын

    I love that you do this. Great content, smarty pants man.

  • @raphaelradespiel9970
    @raphaelradespiel99702 жыл бұрын

    I'm still waiting for the video where you mine silicone to produce homemade microchips.

  • @marek_ryn

    @marek_ryn

    2 жыл бұрын

    There you have: kzread.info

  • @aryamanjain6948
    @aryamanjain69482 жыл бұрын

    THANK YOU SOOO MUCH JDH I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOR SOOOO LONG.

  • @cookinsteve9281
    @cookinsteve9281 Жыл бұрын

    This video caused massive blood pressure spiking when I saw that circuit

  • @jttttttt138
    @jttttttt1382 жыл бұрын

    Color was indeed 'hacked' into it. The two chroma channels were modulated together using a carrier frequency and then basically just added to the luminance channel. Pretty much like analog tv.

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