YES! The CPU passes the smoke test. And just executed its first code!

First few manual clock cycles were NOPs, then I fed it a steady stream of additions to a register (add r2 r1 r2) to make the lights on the top register start counting.

So it's actually computing!

Then I started on interfacing it to the emulator so I can feed it actual programs. Not completely finished with that yet, but it's close enough that I can see it starting to work.

All signs are looking good!

@autumn What OSes will you be able to connect the CPU to?
@autumn that's so cool! is there anywhere I can read more about this?
@BBQDeveloper I've just started putting information up on a website at woodlanddigital.net — but it's just a quick introduction so far. I'll share some more tech details there before too long, and eventually want to build up a lot of learning material to share there.
@autumn 24-bit, awesome! :D

@autumn 👏👏👏👏👏

It's enough to dance about

@reconbot Absolutely worth a happy dance!
@autumn Are the boards in that tall stack the registers?
@autumn
👏👏👏 Congratulations! Hardly anything as satisfying as a brainchild actually working in reality, as expected.
@autumn that stack reminds me of the Gibson in Hackers ❤️
@autumn This looks very cool. What're you making here?
@cenobyte @autumn a computer processing unit (processor) made of discrete components (individual transistors) and simple integrated logic circuits. See their website for a bit more info. https://www.woodlanddigitalstudios.com/
Woodland Digital Studios

@autumn It looks very good, congratulations on bringing your project this far!