This is a small simulator for electronic circuits built entirely from relays. I made it as a preparation for building a digital clock from electromechanical parts only, speak: relays, switches and lamps. No microprocessors, no semiconductors. As such a project required a completely different kind of thinking, it seemed to be a good idea to verify some basic ideas using software first, so this project was started.
See the example package which demonstrates how to assemble circuits and how to run the simulation.
There are a number of improvements I would like to add to the project:
- improve clock generator to use system precision for the ticks
- introduce artificial ticks for testing not based on real times
- allow to set counter direction
- build graphical user interface to visualize the clock display
- add time adjustment buttons for setting the clock
- logic gates
- adder
- latch
- ...