Mars Lander (a bold project)

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Oct 4, 2021, 8:55:51 PM10/4/21

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Due to budget cuts and an obvious shortage of integrated circuits, NASA decided to implement the landing on Mars using a KENBAK-1.

I will be working on how to put the program in the new chosen flight computer ...

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Oct 5, 2021, 9:41:57 AM10/5/21

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That's awesome! Thanks for sharing this.

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Oct 5, 2021, 3:32:07 PM10/5/21

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I think the math was reduced to addition and subtraction and a division by 2, easily done with shift left.

After implementing the equations in the spreadsheet everything seems to be going well, I'll keep experimenting.

We are also going to need a friendly interface on the KENBAK-1, that is going to be a challenge ...

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Oct 5, 2021, 4:10:01 PM10/5/21

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I have not tested it but it would be great if the CLEAR button works while the program is running.

The original KENBAK-1 hardware has the CLEAR button connected to the INPUT flip/flops.

This to allow editing the new thrust value.

Here an initial idea of how to play the "Mars Lander".

I did some testing before and pressing two buttons simultaneously to generate the command "Thrust Fire" seems to work fine.

On Tuesday, October 5, 2021 at 9:41:57 AM UTC-4 famousd...@gmail.com wrote:

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