Seeing red

[emjay]

They're made for building boards, yeah, they go beyond the projects you're doing.  They can also be used to make those schematics I've been linking in this thread, though.  I'm glad you're enjoying it.

It does look cool, don't get me wrong, just over my head at the moment. Maybe one day

I've done chapter three now... flip-flops, registers, RAM, and a program counter. It's really good because I'm learning how these things really work - it's demystifying it no end I spent forever on the program counter though... all day I understood what it needed to do and how it worked but I had trouble working out how to model an if, else-if, else-if, else with muxes. I think I'm starting to understand that now though... put the top-most if closest to the register... then the second top-most back from that and so on. And also I forgot that the register should be loading all the time in this case, just from different sources, so I wasted a lot of time trying to debug when I was setting the load bit of the register to the load control bit, but in the end just changed it to the constant true. But anyway, I think it's probably about time I stopped giving you updates on my progress because they're well and truly off-topic for this thread and stopping it die a natural death. But I'll let you know when I've finished and thanks again for introducing me to it, and for all the wonderful discussion we've had in this thread over the last month or so