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Electronics & robotics · Open the invisible

Inside a computer

Press a key. Reveal the journey.

A working teaching model

Your choices change what happens inside.

Your transparent computer

Explore one layer at a time

Control the computer while you watch

Fetch

This teaching CPU accepts ASCII only. Telugu and Unicode text can be explored separately.

What changedReady to explore
Current instruction—
Transfer—
Output—
Why did this happen?

Opening your computer…

A magnified, slowed teaching model. The electrical views explain selected circuits; they are not a transistor-by-transistor model of a commercial processor.

Keyboard events, Shift and character encoding

Start with something familiar

Send a key into the computer

Try A, a number, or a Telugu character. Compare the key event with the text data.

Key event
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Character data
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Programs, power and pixel display

Watch the program work

Display output—
A character becomes pixels

Follow the evidence

Same action. Different layers.

The input, stored data and visible result stay connected as you explore.

The CPU’s small working spaces

What is moving between parts?

Replay the instruction trace
    Explore the diagram

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