[sudo-discuss] Re: FPGA learning

Let's settle on Thursday, May 7!!!!! AWESOME have a wonderful time out there, take pics of your travels and regale us with stories plz! On Wed, Apr 15, 2026 at 13:35 Larry Doolittle <larry(a)doolittle.boa.org> wrote: > Judy - > > On Wed, Apr 15, 2026 at 12:24:52PM -0700, Judy Tuan via sudo-discuss wrote: >> What's the next thing we must do to move this forward? Shall we schedule >> the TTL logic demo prototype class? > > Thanks for jumping in and suggesting something concrete! > I bet that's what we need. > >> I am aware that this class doesn't go >> into FPGA concepts yet, but is designed to teach us hardware and >> logic. > > Right. I'm not sure how much clock-time any of this will take, > but I have a pretty clear plan for about three lessons, and > the TTL protoboard step is the first. When David and I went through > it, it took some extra time because we were still scrounging for parts. > We probably took two hours, and I left him with an extra-credit homework > puzzle. > >> Does it require purchase of materials first, or do we have >> everything we need for like 3 of us to do the demo in a prototype session? > > I think we have the parts. > >> I hereby take the great liberty of suggesting we do the TTL logic demo >> prototype class session on Thursday, 4/30, 6:30-9pm! Can you do that time >> Larry, David, Angela, Arik, and anyone else interested? Larry if that time >> does not work for you, would you suggest a time? > > I do more traveling now that I'm retired. I plan to be out-of-town > for that whole week, roughly Apr 27 - May 4. In general I can be > available almost any day/time of the week. So, how about Thursday May 7? > > Moving the time away from the high-commotion Tue and Wed evenings > seems like a good plan, assuming the interested people can make it. > > - Larry