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Building an 8-bit breadboard computer!

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Ben Eater's playlist building an 8-bit computer on breadboards from basic logic chips, widely recommended for understanding how a processor works from the ground up.

Watch for: Long series; kits are available but not required

In their words

I am a beginner to computer engineering and electrical engineering, and I have watched the entirety of Ben Eater's 8 bit breadboard computer series so I decided that because I understood that well, that I would try and design my own 16-bit CPU inside of Logisim.
user140052 on electronics.stackexchange.com, Jul 2020. CC BY-SA.

I have been watching Ben Eater's Building an 8-Bit Breadboard Computer.
Kushagr Jaiswal on electronics.stackexchange.com, Oct 2023. CC BY-SA.

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