It looks beautiful. Long ago, when transputers were popular, I used to admire a bunch of LED lights. I got carried away with the idea of building my own parallel machine with a bunch of MC68000 processors. I never made one. Today, when the CPU has more cores, I don't even have to imagine anymore... I had the same idea for Front Panel a long time ago, but I never managed to take the time to make something similar. I'm wondering if there is a possibility that the LEDs turn on according to some event inside the computer? For example to show cpu, memory or hdd usage or something similar? For 7-segment displays would be better to show some useful value since the voltage doesn't change significantly. Maybe to show CPU usage or CPU and case temperature? This way if they show any deviation greater than 5v and 12v, it may be too late to react... ... There are now relatively cheap LED matrices (managed with an RPI PICO microcontroller) and I thought I would use a few pieces to make a case similar to the CM-2 machine. The biggest problem for me is to find information on how to get data about memory usage (memory map) or about communication between processes, which would be nice to see in graphic mode on the LED panel (each LED to represent a part of memory or a process or ... )! Does anyone have experience with this?
I'm happy you enjoyed it. It had occured to me that with some cleverness it would be possible to get the lights to represent CPU load or other interesting stats but i never got around to implementing it. I can't help you with your idea but it is possible others might be able to.
Nerdy AF. I love it !!!
Thank you
This is pretty cool man.
So awesome! Would love to hear more about those LED boards you made.
Thank you! I am planning a "how i done it" video soon! Can't say when yet but subscribe and you'll get the notification.
I have now done a explanation video :)
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@@FluxLabsProjects awesome thanks - I will check it out!
It looks beautiful.
Long ago, when transputers were popular, I used to admire a bunch of LED lights.
I got carried away with the idea of building my own parallel machine with a bunch of MC68000 processors.
I never made one.
Today, when the CPU has more cores, I don't even have to imagine anymore...
I had the same idea for Front Panel a long time ago, but I never managed to take the time to make something similar.
I'm wondering if there is a possibility that the LEDs turn on according to some event inside the computer?
For example to show cpu, memory or hdd usage or something similar?
For 7-segment displays would be better to show some useful value since the voltage doesn't change significantly.
Maybe to show CPU usage or CPU and case temperature?
This way if they show any deviation greater than 5v and 12v, it may be too late to react...
...
There are now relatively cheap LED matrices (managed with an RPI PICO microcontroller) and I thought I would use a few pieces to make a case similar to the CM-2 machine.
The biggest problem for me is to find information on how to get data about memory usage (memory map) or about communication between processes, which would be nice to see in graphic mode on the LED panel (each LED to represent a part of memory or a process or ... )!
Does anyone have experience with this?
I'm happy you enjoyed it. It had occured to me that with some cleverness it would be possible to get the lights to represent CPU load or other interesting stats but i never got around to implementing it. I can't help you with your idea but it is possible others might be able to.
It’s insanely awesome man but yeah i wonder where did you get that front panel from
Super cool! Now all you have to do is install 3D File Viewer (FSV)! (i.e.: "i know this, it's a Unix system!")
I love this
Great Stuff :)
Take my kidney
That's a nice offer, but i'd rather $100,000. In all seriousness, i will do a" how i done it" video so you can have a go yourself if you fancy.