Megaprocessor Tour 1 - (fixed audio)
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN commenters link it as the easy way to see the giant home-built CPU without hammering the author's website.
What it is
A short tour of the Megaprocessor, a microprocessor built at enormous scale from tens of thousands of discrete transistors. The builder shows what the machine is made of and where it now lives, at the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge, where visitors can play Tetris on it.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2016 to 2024.
What Hacker News said
Recommends pavel_lishin · 2016-07 · on “Huge home-built computer used for Tetris”
A video tour is available on youtube, so we don't crush his website: [this video] Spoiler alert: his Tetris skills are inversely proportional to his computer building skills.
Recommends diydsp · 2016-08 · on “Megaprocessor – A micro-processor built large”
The amazing thing about this is that you can't critique. I mean, you can say anything you want, but you can't stop it or change this guy's mind. :) It's pretty neat seeing him change the clock speed: [this video]
Cites moefh · 2024-04 · on “Show HN: I made a programmable computer from NAND gates”
There's this one that goes one step beyond that, it's built out of 40,000 discrete transistors: [this video] EDIT: there's more information here: [LINK]