As part of his computer science curriculum at Texas A&M University in the early 2000s, [Paul Krizak] took a computer architecture course on the basics of their functioning. This and being exposed to ...

Sometime around 2009, [J. Clark Scott] published a book aimed to demystify computers for everyone by walking through construction of an 8-bit CPU from scratch. The book had a catchy, but somewhat ...

A man has gone viral after building a fully functional 8-bit computer out of K’Nex. In a video that has now amassed over 112,000 views, Kyle, known online as Shadowman39, debuted the Arithmetic and ...

Tokyo, Japan—Oki Electric Industry Co. Ltd. has equipped its ML610300 series microcontrollers (MCU) with an 8-bit CPU core and voice synthesis LSI. By combining the CPU and voice synthesis LSI in a ...

That is exactly what YouTube user Paulo Constantino did from the comfort of his own home in a video that was uploaded last June and is only now beginning to garner the attention it deserves.

There's something about programming with constraints (i.e. being limited by things like memory, colours, resolution etc) that is far more appealing than modern systems. I learned programming on an ...