2009-11-10T16:00:26Z Photos, electronics, cnc, and more Jeff Eplerjepler@unpythonic.net 2009-11-10T16:00:26Z 2009-11-10T16:00:26Z https://gamma.unpythonic.net/01257868826 <div style="float:right;clear:right"><!-- schematic.png--><div class=albumouter style=width:306px id=><div class=albumimage style="width:253px;margin-left:26.5px;"><a href="https://media.unpythonic.net/emergent-files/01257868826/schematic.png" class="thickbox" rel="album" title="Random Number Generator Schematic"><img src="https://media.unpythonic.net/emergent-files/01257868826/schematic-small.jpg" width=247 height=300></a><div ><div style="float: right" ><a href="https://media.unpythonic.net/emergent-files/01257868826/schematic.png"><img class=zoom src="https://media.unpythonic.net/emergent-files/default/zoom.png"></a></div><a href="https://media.unpythonic.net/emergent-files/01257868826/schematic.png">Random Number Generator Schematic</a></div></div></div> </div> Inspired by other designs I've seen online, most directly <a href="http://robseward.com/misc/RNG2/">Rob Seward's design</a>, I decided to build my own random number generator based Will Ware's &quot;avalanche noise in a reverse-biased PN junction&quot; (try <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20061117145903/http://willware.net:8080/hw-rng.html">this mirror</a> of <a href="http://willware.net:8080/hw-rng.html">Will Ware's page</a>). Also important is <a href="http://www.av8n.com/turbid/paper/turbid.htm">turbid</a> which introduced me to the concept of hash saturation and the math behind it. <p>