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[channelmaniac]

Hey folks, if you want to learn more about what makes your arcade game board work, I'll be speaking at VCF Southwest in Dallas at the end of June. They have me down for 3 speaking slots, 2 of which would be applicable here:

• Digital Logic Basics
• Computer Circuit Basics

Digital Logic Basics will cover logic gates and what they do: AND, OR, Buffers, Inverters (NOT), NOR, NAND, ExOR, Latches, Decoders, and more...

Computer Circuit Basics will cover things like Clock, Reset, busses and control signals, address decoding, accessing RAM/ROMs, accessing Dynamic RAMs, and more.

Both sessions are things that will help you understand the circuits you're trying to repair.

If you make it out, stop by and say hi. My company, Arcadecomponents, is a show sponsor and I have a booth to man when I'm not speaking or running the build lab for the 8031-based computer kit I'm assembling for the show.

www.vcfsw.org

Thanks,

Raymond

 

[Ajax]

Is there a virtual option?

 

[channelmaniac]

Probably not. I think we'll have the internet connectivity swamped enough to not have sufficient bandwidth. The sessions will be recorded and put up later on YouTube.

 

[Heinz]

Look forward to watching them CM, excellent stuff.

 

[channelmaniac]

w00t!

Now I'm listed on the Speakers page.

Speakers | VCF Southwest

www.vcfsw.org

 

[channelmaniac]

Another first for me... My first live stream event. Bil Herd of Commodore fame had us on his YT channel to talk about the show today

 

[HeavyMachineGoob]

I can't physically be there but I'm happy to see this. Thanks so much for doing an educational presentation on circuits.

 

[Fygee]

Hell yeah dude. I'll be excited to watch the YT videos.

 

[wyo]

Congrats @channelmaniac you are doing the Lord's work.

 

[HellioN]

This is a unique and positive thread.

 

[channelmaniac]

Thanks for all the kind words!

 

[distropia]

God knows i'd love to be there and talk with you, but unfortunately i don't travel to the USA too much lately
Have fun!

 

[channelmaniac]

David Murray, the 8-Bit Guy and I are doing a VIC-20 Repair Workshop on Friday afternoon from 3-6pm.

Also, I'm building the show computer kit, an affordable 8031 microcontroller based system running Intel's BASIC-52 that will be very easy to solder together.

 

[prof]

 

[channelmaniac]

[Desire to know more intensifies]

Hey, just ask away! VCF Southwest is June 23rd - 25th in Dallas on the UT Dallas campus.

 

[ChuChu Flamingo]

is 8-bit guy going to destroy the vic-20? Asking for a friend.

https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/j0pbmm

 

[channelmaniac]

is 8-bit guy going to destroy the vic-20? Asking for a friend.

No. He has a bunch of parts boards that will be able to either be fixed or used to fix others. I'll be bringing in some test gear.

 

[Fygee]

Possibility of you and 8-bit ever doing a video together on his channel?

 

[channelmaniac]

Possibility of you and 8-bit ever doing a video together on his channel?

I've been in a couple of them... The VIC-20 and C128 repair / rebuild videos. The C128 one even made Reddit. You can find my PCjr in another one of his videos and I got a shout out for helping him with repairing his Compaq 8086 portable.

 

[channelmaniac]

Monday at 02:20 I ordered 5 PCBs of the 8031 kit computer PCB from JLCPCB. they arrived today (Friday at 13:21)... That's 3 1/2 days from order and creation in China to my house in the Dallas, TX suburbs. WOW.

They soldered right up! On minor issue to address - the positive connection on the barrel jack for DC power is slightly undersized. That will be fixed tonight and 100 PCBs ordered for the show!

 

[channelmaniac]

Been BUSY!

Working up sign layouts, prepping items for the fundraising auction, finishing my presentations, and finishing up the items I'll be selling.

We sold out the last table tonight too.

I tell you guys that this has been a wild ride. 5 guys coming together to put on an expo that hasn't been done here in 10 years. We put our finances on the line that we'd be able to pull this off and we're making it happen!

 

[mainman]

Will there be any advice on how to kill giant alien bugs

 

[channelmaniac]

VCF Southwest is done! It was a LOT of work and an amazing time seeing all the folks having fun.

My sessions were recorded. They are up on the VCFSW Channel on YT and I got permission to have the Digital Logic Basics and the Computer Circuit Basics copied over to my channel.

https://www.youtube.com/@Arcadecomponentscom