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Google engineer builds PC from scratch
- DanBC 15y agoI love stuff like this. I really hope keen engineering youth are able to get involved with building toy CPUs. Maybe not that complex, but enough to grasp what memory mapping and registers actually are. Anyone interested could read either: (http://www.amazon.com/Code-Language-Computer-Hardware-Software/dp/0735611319 http://www.amazon.com/Code-Language-Computer-Hardware-Softwa...) {the intro is too gentle for too long, then bamm it's too hard for many people.} (http://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Student-Manual/dp/0521377099/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_b http://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Student-Manual/dp/0521...) the student lab manual for the art of electronics. Probably best with AoE, which is showing its age but still excellent.
- joshu 15y agoBuilding the computer from scratch isn't insanely hard. Writing the OS and TCP stack is, though. (I have done some of bth as part of degree at CMU, but not at the same time. Had to write a multitasking OS, no networking, and then separately design and build a machine from not-quite discrete components - we used 290x bit-slices and PALs.)