Getting ready to deploy my new Meshcore repeater! Needs new batteries and waterproofing still, but so far so good with testing!

#meshcore #electronics

Finally got around to making the output register for the WCPU-1. So much easier to read this than a bunch of LEDs!

#electronics #homebrewcomputer #wcpu1

I may have succumbed to a little bit of scope creep before calling the architecture “done”. Bonus points if you can figure out what I’m adding haha

#electronics #homebrewcomputer #wcpu1

Will Warren The blog of an engineer from Canada

Comments are back live on my website again after a many year hiatus! Find a post and leave me a comment :) willwarren.com

I’ve also converted/imported all the old comments from disqus (~200) into the new system!

I removed Disqus from my website a few years ago due to their practices (ads, mainly). I’ve finally gotten around to working on re-enabling comments on the site with a whole new system of my own creation.

It’s free to run, works on static sites, has all the features I want. Open sourcing very soon!

Bughunt! - Making an 8 Bit pipelined CPU

A new jam-1 video dropped! It’s a good day youtu.be/OHjTs0prsqY

Should You Be A Carpenter? [Wading Through AI - Episode 1]

An intelligent conversation about AI grounded in the real world with no hype??? Crazy right? Definitely worth a listen! youtu.be/RJyPVLMyyuA

My CPU build post made the front page of HN! Life goal achieved! news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4738...

#electronics #homebrewcomputer #wcpu1

Building My Own CPU - Part 3: Just Like the Simulations (It Was Not Just Like The Simulations) The blog of an engineer from Canada

The third installment in the thrilling saga of “can Will make a CPU” just dropped and it’s a good one! willwarren.com/2026/03/12/b...

#electronics #homebrewcomputer #wcpu1

This is all it took to get subtraction working (lol). Can you tell I ran out of wires and resorted to some truly cursed creations? Also yes that is the Flags register just sort of hanging there resting on the wire nest.

#electronics #homebrewcomputer #wcpu1

I have birthed AGI, a superintelligence capable of …. counting veeeeery slowly to 255. It will run a lot faster once I get some more parts in the mail I swear. Then it’s only a matter of time until the singularity.

#electronics #homebrewcomputer #wcpu1

Executing random garbage from RAM leads to some fun patterns! Next just need to actually program something useful into it! And then probably hours of troubleshooting haha :(

An ominously array of resistors lit from beneath with red light

The council of resistors will decide your fate

#electronics

Have you taken your daily recommended intake of blinkenlights today? If not, try these

#electronics #homebrewcomputer #wcpu1

RAM is so expensive right now even a 0GB set is $75 lol a.co/d/3ylZPUf

Building My Own CPU - Part 2: Simulation The blog of an engineer from Canada

Rambling some more about WCPU-1 - with about a million screenshots of logisim willwarren.com/2025/08/14/b...

#electronics #logisim

This is really bad. I hope Adafruit can figure out how to operate in this garbage environment

blog.adafruit.com/2025/05/08/h...

Deciding to start up Fusion360 is a serious time commitment. Also once it’s open, deciding to close it means you are really, definitely, 100% sure that you’re done

#3DPrinting #Fusion360

The annual weeding of the weeds 🌱

I use my phone a lot, and I use my laptop a lot. My iPad does nothing ever and basically sits on the shelf with a run down battery all the time. Maybe it’s not for me? Or maybe I’m using it wrong…

My 8-Bit Adder demonstrator thing looks great but the DIP switches are baaaackwarrrrrdddssssss (LSB on the left).

Not a fatal flaw but the input is backwards from the output. Not great for a demonstrator…so I think I might just redo it 😭

Careless mistakes cost money!

#electronics #pcb #kicad

Building My Own CPU - Part 1 The blog of an engineer from Canada

I'm doing the thing that many nerds eventually do and building my own computer from the ground up with logic gates 😅.

Check out the first rambling post about WCPU-1 here: willwarren.com/2025/04/29/b...

#electronics #hardware #beneater

I had no idea flangeless LEDs existed! TIL

Just various little ESP32-C3 gadgets!

Very smol UPS for very smol circuits :) 350mAh, charges with USB-C.

#electronics #pcb #3dprinting

4000 year-old spreadsheet! www.datafix.com.au/BASHing/2020...

Minitris - a Very Small #tetris

It’s easier than you think!

Latest dev board for the ESP32-C3-WROOM, tried to make it small as possible while still including all the things needed to start it up + USB-C and LEDs (naturally)