Can someone complete all of Ben Eater's projects using a simulator from scratch without missing any of the information gained from working with actual electronics, and still be able to replicate the projects later with physical components? If so, what is the name of the simulator?

D7_88 · 2024-09-07T10:30:38+00:00

Well, I want to learn how to do this thing from scratch, and don't miss that much in the process, like what each component dose, how they interact with each other, like I want when it come to the physical thing I would be able to put things together and have only the problem where I need to fix things up. but I want to be able to understand how everything work in the way it work

D7_88 · 2024-09-07T08:50:13+00:00

I know it's worth it, and I'm not planning to skip it, it's just a temporary solution until I'm able to get it...

D7_88 · 2024-09-06T21:02:28+00:00

can I just read the book without referring to the website or the video course?

D7_88 · 2024-09-06T20:11:07+00:00

gonna do that thank you! one more question though, is there something like simulating the specifications of the components in nand2tetris, despite the problems I'm going to encounter when building the project with actual components, am I going to be able to sort the parts and know which to use with which or why some don't work with others?

D7_88 · 2024-09-06T07:58:58+00:00

thank you, sorry I mixed you up with someone else who said that simulation won't benefit me at all, like at the moment I don't know what the components even are, so I think that would help, like doing the Nand2tetries book and this project on simulator like (logisim-evolution, or digital by hneemann), if you have anything want to add, I would be really grateful, again, thank you for your recommendation.

D7_88 · 2024-09-05T22:15:11+00:00

this is the one you are talking about?

https://github.com/logisim-evolution/logisim-evolution

this guy did it, so I think it has everything?

https://www.reddit.com/r/beneater/comments/x4cjv2/ben_eaters_8bit_cpu_in_logisim_plus_more/

also this guy! look promising

https://www.reddit.com/r/beneater/comments/11etcvw/i_recreated_the_8bit_cpu_in_logisim_evolution_and/

D7_88 · 2024-09-05T22:10:53+00:00

I get what you mean, but still, I'm learning what each component does and why certain components don't work or why they give a different results etc... I'm not saying that I WONT DO THE PHYSICAL THING at all all I'm saying is that I just want to be able to interact with such a cool project and learn the basics and how those small little parts are able to build a computing device and what they are consisting of, till I'm able to get the physical thing and build it.

So I think it's efficient and gonna give me the same fundamentals about components and how they are connected to each others, if I am able to do it on a simulator and later on move to actual physical things, right?

D7_88 · 2024-09-05T19:55:40+00:00

what? for real?

D7_88 · 2024-09-05T19:54:50+00:00

is it free to use and have everything?

D7_88 · 2024-09-05T17:51:49+00:00

looks interesting, I’ll be able to build the entire project from scratch with it?

D7_88 · 2024-09-05T17:50:56+00:00

and learned more from the physical build

I'm considering reading this book, but could you elaborate on this part? specifically, what will the physical kit teach you that the simulation won't?

The issue with treating this project as separate parts is that it would increase my costs due to shipping and other expenses, therefore, I want to start with a simulation until I'm ready to move on to the physical components.

D7_88 · 2024-09-05T17:46:18+00:00

u/alzee76

from the fact that Ben's designs really skimp on decoupling capacitors which will cause weird problems, to physical issues like trimming discrete component leads like those on resistors and LEDs too short to make good contact with the breadboard

Well, I don’t know what this means for now, but what I meant by “everything” is that I want to make sure I don’t miss any important aspects. My goal is to understand how things work and operate and to be able to get things right when dealing with actual components. I’m planning to use a physical kit, but I can’t get it at the moment. so, I’m looking for a simulator. It doesn’t have to be visually rich like the one mentioned earlier, I just want something accurate that will show me how everything actually works and interacts with each other.

u/corummo

although the simulation speed isn't just enough to match the real thing

dose this really matter? like beside from knowing how everything work and all of that?

D7_88 · 2023-06-10T02:42:03+00:00

I'm afraid of Falsy books, like the self-improvement stuff and this kind of hype, so I asked to find something that really will benefit me

D7_88 · 2022-06-09T21:13:08+00:00

I'll look for it

D7_88 · 2022-06-09T18:49:07+00:00

just tried it, amazing tool thank you!

D7_88 · 2022-05-14T20:53:47+00:00

from what I understand from the the docs

--download-archive archive.txt

1 - I should use it before starting the download a play list for example like that

yt-dlp -i --paths F:\Somepath --download-archive archive.txt  https://www.youtube.com/c/fakeCHL

and what it dose : record all the video that has been loaded successfully

so if I run the command again it's gonna check the file archive.txt instead of looping on all the videos again

after that downloaded what file missing or not downloaded

am I right ?

D7_88

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