Most clones I've seen don't look that great, but this one's nice. I noticed that the PCB has no ULA. I'm reading that it was impossible to procure in the USSR because of embargos so the designer, Sergey Zonov, reverse-engineered it and used 74xx ICs. That ..is an impressive feat. It has been replicated by Chris Smith, but by actually opening up a ULA and looking at the circuit. Doing this blindly is just awesome.
It really does look great. Unfortunately for me, grandpa’s one has a broken bottom part and died battery. I tried to repair it but I did not have enough tools not to burn the plate.
It is like Monte Carlo integration and the curse of dimensionality. Yes, you can use this for basically anything but it pays off only if the object you are trying to integrate is multidimensional, otherwise traditional methods outperforms
https://zxbyte.org/leningrad.htm (it's in Russian but I hope you have an auto translator in a browser)
Great post overall!
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