Free university project for ORE

[coderboy14]

This might not be what ur looking for, but we should have a simple CPU that is broken down into its different parts, so that people who don’t know what a NOT gate is can see how the CPU works.

What I mean by broken down is that everything is spread out, and the components are simple. I.E., an RCA ALU that can do simple ALU things in one area, simple RAM in another area, the ROM explained, and some simple programs it can run, etc.

I realize that it would be ridiculously slow, because of the bussing and outdated components (that are simpler to understand) and bussing, but speed wouldn’t be the point.

I find that pretty great. I've been slowly working on all the components of a processor, and many are complex to get your hand around. It took me forever to get most of the circuits for an ALU to work. The only part of the ALU I still can't get is the comparing circuits correct. Being able to see everything sounds really useful. I'm sure the community has a lot of people who can help with this. Even I, somebody who is pretty basic compared to most of this community, could help with building RAM, ROM, and math circuits.

Building busses IMHO is the simplest part of all this. Heck, even the CPU itself is pretty gosh darn like a complex bus, since in a lot of my designs anyways, the cpu is pretty much only opening gates to transfer data to the right spots.

It isn't quite the kind of project I was looking for. Though any one of the more advanced builders are capable of doing something like this and I'd definitely like to see it. My field is informatics (mostly programming, but also systems development). That doesn't really cover redstone and education so it's kind of out of scope unfortunately.

Yah, I realise that. I just replied because it's a good idea in general.

I do have an idea, but forgive my lack of OpenRedstone knowledge. I joined, because I honestly, truly, love redstone, but I have been working on my redstone skills before I actively join a server full or redstone gods. Plus, I'm kinda lazy, so my redstone skills improve slowly. Haha.

Here's a system idea though. I don't know how you handle your backup system, but a thought came to me, similar to how I sometimes handle mine. Making the server's backups downloadable, at least to members. I know there's sometimes you build something awesome in a server you wish you could have on your own computer. Either building a system that works with WorldEdit, to allow a user to download their own plot, or using the system I use to allow for full world access.

For my systems, I setup the backup systems to also work with GitHub. I honestly recommend this either way, the only question is if you make it public. Having backups on GitHub is AMAZING! If something goes wrong, let's say an exploiter destroys a huge portion of the world, or a file corruption delete a lot of things, GitHub allows for you to magically go back in time, and restore everything. Maybe if you make it public, don't backup everything. Only the save folder itself. Don't wanna share your configuration files, or (if configured) your RCON password, haha!

Heck, if you really wanna put yourself through the wringer with coding, you could make a whole mod, that is compatible with WorldEdit, where people can share their creations, to allow others to download. Heck, if you really wanna be fancy, you can make it automatically post on the forum, if their Minecraft account was verified and linked with their forum account (which would be easy). It would make it really easy to find awesome builds under a "Build Showcase" category on the forum. If their account is linked (otherwise it'd have to be posted as anonymous, I guess?), they could later come back and add a description and stuff, but just the build itself could be really nice, in my option.

These are just some roughly though out ideas, but since I thought of them, I figured I've give it to you humans to chew on, maybe you like it, maybe it makes you gag, but either way, it could inspire other ideas, that could (also) be great! Even if these ideas don't get done for your project thingy, they are still ideas that could be implemented. I never really checked this forum out, to see if there's a suggestion category. If there isn't, there should be, for the community to help improve ORE.

Sincerely, Ethan!
(I'm so used to writing emails for school, lol)