1 Building an 8-bit breadboard computer!
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.
Topic
digital logic
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2 8-bit computer update
Entry point to Ben Eater's breadboard computer series, linked when someone asks how a CPU, registers or clock cycles work at the hardware level.
3 Making logic gates from transistors
Ben Eater builds basic logic gates from transistors, resistors and LEDs on a breadboard; beginners often follow it, then ask how the XOR circuit works.
4 JK flip-flop racing
Ben Eater builds a JK flip-flop and shows why it works only intermittently because of a race condition, cited to settle questions about his earlier latch schematic.
5 Harry Porter's Relay Computer
A demonstration of a computer built entirely from relays, linked both as a serious example of relay logic and as a tongue in cheek extreme.
6 Programming my 8-bit breadboard computer
Warmly recommended for learning how a processor works from the ground up by building a simple computer from scratch and seeing code run on real hardware.
Hidden gem7 Registers and RAM: Crash Course Computer Science #6
Explains how gated latches build registers and a grid of RAM; learners use it as a starting point and ask follow-up questions about the wiring.
8 Digital Electronics: Debouncing a Push Button Switch (SPST)
Explains hardware debouncing of switches with an RC network feeding a Schmitt trigger inverter, part of a series people cite when cleaning up clock inputs.
9 27c3: Reverse Engineering the MOS 6502 CPU (en)
An overview of how a processor is organised and executes instructions, offered as background on registers and CPU structure rather than circuit detail.
10 Designing and building a 1-bit register - 8 bit register - Part 3
Part of Ben Eater's 8 bit computer series, this one builds a register from D flip flops and is cited in questions about registers and RAM.
11 How TRANSISTORS do MATH
Explains how transistors form logic gates and how those gates add binary numbers, linked when people ask how a computer physically does arithmetic.
