One Kyle Hovey has decided to build his own 8-bit CPU from scratch, out of breadboard, NVRAM chips (non-volatile RAM), surface-mount transistors, and lots and lots of wire. This in itself isn't ...

In a video that has now amassed over 112,000 views, Kyle, known online as Shadowman39, debuted the Arithmetic and Logic Unit, or ALU, and showed how it processes and computes information in 8-bit ...

Electronics-based computers are far superior in essentially every way, but the aesthetics of a mechanical computer are still unmatched, like this 8-bit machine built from K’nex.