[HacktionLab] BarnCamp update. Workshop on how processors etc work?

[Mike Harris]

On 10/05/2013 14:46, kriptick wrote:
>
> >We do also have an announce list John, which you can sign-up to via the
> >web site https://hacktionlab.org
>  
> will do
>
> >>  For workshops, I can't really keep up with software goings on these
> >> days so by complete contrast I could offer one on how processors and
> >> logic chips actually work right down at the component level, a history
> >sounds great, although is it going to be too techyfor a lot of people?
> DEFINITELY not the intention as I really do want this to be suitable
> for absolutely anyone at all who's curious to know just at a simple
> level what's going on inside the silicon in their iphones etc. This
> will therefore NOT be a full description of cutting edge chips as it'd
> be impossible to describe completely how such beasts work in much less
> than a few weeks? Remember, modern processor chips with their tens of
> millions of transistors are now so phenomenally complex that no single
> person in the world knows every part of them. So this workshop would
> be a simple description of how the most fundamental logic elements of
> such - (and, or & not gates) work & are made & then very briefly &
> with plenty left to the imagination, how such simple elements are
> continuously joined/cascaded together to make more & more complex
> components that make up the complete item.
cool it sounds good, seems like you have a few takers already, and I do
like practical hands-on stuff myself...
>
> >I will be interested, if I've time to come to it....
> >
> >please add your workshop at
> >
> >https://hacktionlab.org/hacktionlab/index.php/BarnCamp_2013_ideas_scratchpad
> >
> >or let one of us know if you don't have a wiki login and need us to
> do it.
>  
> Ok I'll have a stab but still seem to be wiki phobic ;-(
I've created you an account, so you should get an email.  If you get
stuck give us a shout.

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