I could probably build a computer from scratch, but it’s not gonna be a modern one with impossibly small microchips and bajillions of transistors. It’s gonna be a room-sized behemoth with only like 8bits of memory that takes 24 hours to compute 1+1.
I was going to ask that disclaimer, but it’s also a step closer and interesting nonetheless.
If also recommend Breaking Taps, while he does amazing stuff in a home lab it also has the disclaimer that he’s able to get it already has done sorry interesting but rare stuff. Electron microscope etc.
I thought I saw someone making homemade, low power processors but for the life of me I can’t remember who or where.
I could probably build a computer from scratch, but it’s not gonna be a modern one with impossibly small microchips and bajillions of transistors. It’s gonna be a room-sized behemoth with only like 8bits of memory that takes 24 hours to compute 1+1.
Check out Ben Eater on YouTube.
Or Steve Mould, who made a processor calculation using water for demonstration purposes.
https://piped.video/watch?v=IxXaizglscw
He uses a microcontroller though for his breadboard PC. A microcontroller that is built in a fab.
That’s the 6502 one you’re talking about though, what about the previous one (granted it still used a bunch of ICs, but not a microcontroller per se)
I was going to ask that disclaimer, but it’s also a step closer and interesting nonetheless.
If also recommend Breaking Taps, while he does amazing stuff in a home lab it also has the disclaimer that he’s able to get it already has done sorry interesting but rare stuff. Electron microscope etc.
I thought I saw someone making homemade, low power processors but for the life of me I can’t remember who or where.
Sam Zeloof did it.
I’m hoping the guy from Primitive Technology will eventually work his way up to that at some point.
They’re playing one of those games where you crash on a planet and go from rock to bow and arrow to quantum phase disruptors, but for real.
Sounds like something an alien would say, which is just what you want me to think!
You’d make Charles Babbage very smug with that kind of talk