Block I Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC): How to build one in your basement

I was thinking about this last night. As a designer (UI&#x2F;Front-End), I had the alarming thought of &quot;what am I going to do with what I know now in ten years?&quot; I&#x27;m fairly intrigued by the idea of space, space travel, and space colonization. But in regard to learning <i>how</i> to design spacecraft instrumentation, I&#x27;m at a total loss.<p>It looks like this will give me a rough rule of thumb for what it&#x27;s like, despite being deprecated technology.<p>Does anyone have any resources (books, similar tutorials, etc.) where I can start to dip my toes into this type of work?

Here is an AGC I did years ago on a Cyclone FPGA,I used a touch LCD for the UI, and it has an IDE for the assembler,. it fits in around 1100 FPGA LE&#x27;s! <a href="https://github.com/donnaware/AGC" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;donnaware&#x2F;AGC</a> The interesting thing that I learned in doing this project is how similar present day MCU&#x27;s are, most are loosely based on the old 8051, which I can see striking similarities.

This is absolutely amazing... The minimum amount of computation power, memory involved is just staggering.<p>Isn&#x27;t it actually more advanced today to a degree, in terms of getting the job done?<p>How many lines of code would a moon landing guidance system be today? How many modules and dependencies?<p>Which one wold be more redundant ( I feel the comparison is obvious here if not: simple program whose redundancy is in its simplicity, and a complex program where redundancy is with multiple levels of checks within)