It is said that the last words uttered by Archimedes before being killed by a Roman soldier while drawing in the sand was "Nōlī turbāre circulōs meōs!" which translates to "Do not disturb my circles".
Well, my circles - or maybe I should say rings - that should have been put nice and straight on top of each other are for sure disturbed. ;-)
They ended up a bit more crooked and askew than I had hoped for, and while I can strive for perfection I don't demand it from myself, so for the time being this is good enough.
Even if I had printed some jigs for holding the rings in place while soldering the resistors that I use as spacers/structure between the rings it was really hard to make it look even remotely nice.
![3d-printed spacers for holding the rings while soldering 3d-printed spacers for holding the rings while soldering](https://cdn.hackaday.io/images/1164851545562066434.jpg)
Well, this is how the first cylinder ended up. Maybe the second cylinder with 16 rings for the address bus will be a bit prettier now that I have some experience with them.
![The cylinder-of-rings that will become the D0-D7 databus The cylinder-of-rings that will become the D0-D7 databus](https://cdn.hackaday.io/images/1453031545562182513.jpg)
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Resistors as spacers ?...
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I had a bunch of 1 megs at home. It would have been better with 10 megs of course, but I think it will be ok.
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Could have used 1pf caps as well, but I don't have that low a value in enough quantity...
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Hey, looks good to me :-D
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