Make a Binary Counter with an Adder and a Clocked Register - Do More With Less - Simply Put

Instead of having a shelf full of eight thousand different kinds of chips, I prefer to maintain a large supply of a small number of flexible and versatile chips that are like "building blocks". One example of this is using an adder and a register to make a counter: Then I don't need to own any counters. To make a real device, of course I'd use an actual counter chip, but for prototyping, why not just keep it simple?
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[@dannixon247]

There are those of us that instead of watching Netflix on a huge screen, stay up late into the night squinting at their phone as a bearded bus driver explains latching gates and binary counters . Keep sharing for our sake!
Cheers

[@Enigma758]

I really enjoy your viewpoints on hobby electronics! I often like to use items for purposes for which they were never intended. BEAM robotics (look into it if you're not familiar with it), perfectly embodies that concept.

[@chenbenzvi2164]

I just realized half way through the video you have a hole in your headphones 😂 video did help me though so cheers mate

[@Cardgames4children]

Awesome Kenshin poster you have there!
And I think it's just devilishly clever and elegant that a counter can be realized / built as a register with a "plus 1" adder slapped on to it. Because that's how humans count, too! You can't count to the next number unless you remember which number you are at currently, and once you DO remember, how you get to the next one is just with a "plus 1".
And this can be generalized, for example, into a counter that counts every third number by using a "plus 3" adder. Awesome stuff

[@toucansam7032]

Great video! I looked through all my stuff and I have a 4 bit Look Ahead Adder but I don't have the Clock, but I ordered one and I'm eager to make this soon :D

[@stevedonkers9087]

My wife has asked me "why do you do this? What is the point?", and when I tell her it's fun and I like to learn she just sort of scoffs at that. It's a puzzle. You think you have it wired up right and it's not working, and you try different things and eventually get it and it feels great. That's why I do it.

[@stephaneshm3043]

very good reflexion about hobby electrnics, i playing with your chip after explanation ! i will play with this 2 chip instead of 74HC590, thanks.

[@parapos]

I totally agree!!

[@mforrest85]

Just let the haters hate. They gonna hate on you no matter what you do. You might as well do something you like to do.