Looking at the rules, I didn't see anything about when a project needed to be done, so I thought it might be fun to post something that was built with discrete 7400 logic, because, like,
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Back in college, we did two large projects for a hardware design class: a four digit RPN calculator (http://http://www.saccade.com/writing/projects/CS428/WireWrap.html#Calc), and an 8-bit computer (http://http://www.saccade.com/writing/projects/CS428/WireWrap.html#Comp) with 1K of RAM and serial I/O.
Full details (including detailed notes and schematics) are here:
http://www.saccade.com/writing/projects ... eWrap.html (http://www.saccade.com/writing/projects/CS428/WireWrap.html)