Some of the most interesting projects in computing are the "Just for fun," builds that individuals dream up. A year and a half ago, we met the Megaprocessor, a room-scale CPU implementation with each ...

James Sharman built a CPU from scratch, displaying a 3D cube in real time. Sharman's video showcases the homemade CPU's ability to handle complex graphics. The video provides insight into the math ...

Not content with your new, 1.4-billion-transistor Ivy Bridge processor? Maybe it runs too hot, or lacks the polygon-pushing powers that you require? Well, I've got just the thing for you: How about ...

[James Sharman] designed and built his own 8-bit computer from scratch using TTL logic chips, including a VGA adapter, and you can watch it run a glorious rotating cube demo in the video below. The ...

I'm starting to do some reasearching so I can start building my own computer from the case up and would like some advice. My original thought was a p3 933Mhz, but I had also never heard of ...

A modern normal network card will have onboard an Ethernet controller which, of course, is a pre-programmed microcontroller. Not only does it do the things required to keep a computer on the network, ...

If you think designing a new CPU from scratch is hard, you ought to try raising money to do it. Even when there is a political and economic will to do so, as is the case with the European Processor ...

It was 1983, and Acorn Computers was on top of the world. Unfortunately, trouble was just around the corner. The small UK company was famous for winning a contract with the British Broadcasting ...