A Digital Clockwork

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A Digital Clockwork is a digital clock circuit simulator inspired by a project created by Wagner Rambo and presented on his YouTube channel, WR Kits.

This simulator was developed as a way to study digital circuit behavior, low-level hardware concepts, discrete logic, and the internal operation of integrated circuits such as CD4017, CD4029, CD4511, and others used in the original design.

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The Original Project

This horrorshow is based on a digital clock circuit designed by Wagner Rambo and showcased on his YouTube channel: WR Kits.

Below is an image of the original hardware project:

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Purpose of This Repository

This repository serves as a personal experimental environment for:

• Studying digital circuit behavior through simulation
• Exploring low-level hardware concepts
• Implementing circuit logic in C++
• Experimenting with the simulation of discrete logic components

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Project Structure

digital-clockwork-simulator
├── assets                           # Images and graphical resources
│   ├── clockwork-board.png
│   ├── counter.png
│   └── dividefreq.png
├── include                          # Header files
│   ├── chips.hpp 
│   ├── feedback.hpp
│   └── freqGenerator.hpp
├── src                              # Source code files
│   ├── chips.cpp
│   ├── digitalClockwork.cpp
│   ├── feedback.cpp
│   └── freqGenerator.cpp
├── tests                            # Unit tests
│   ├── 4017test.cpp 
│   ├── 4029test.cpp 
│   ├── 4040test.cpp
│   ├── 4511test.cpp
│   └── frequencytest.cpp
├── .gitignore                       # Git ignored files configuration
├── LICENSE                          # Project license
├── Makefile                         # Build automation file
└── README.md                        # Project documentation

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Build and Run

To compile and run the Digital Clockwork simulator:

git clone https://github.com/FrankSteps/digital-clockwork-simulator

cd digital-clockwork-simulator

make runClock

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Important Note

This project is not intended to function as a real digital clock, droog.

Its purpose is to validate and explore the behavior of Wagner Rambo's original hardware design through computational simulation. The focus is on reproducing the logical behavior of the circuit rather than achieving precise real-time accuracy.

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License

This project is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

See the LICENSE file for more details.

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Fun Facts

This project's name is a reference to the dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange and this README was written using Nadsat terms such as "horrorshow" and "droog".

Building this little horrorshow was almost as pleasurable as the good old in-output, in-output.