EDN

Building a 4-Bit Computer: Mitigating Metastability (Part 2)

Here are some of the main reasons why metastability may occur in our designs and some of the ways in which we can mitigate its effects In my previous column, we introduced the concept of setup and ...
Ars Technica

Commander X16 thread - A brand new 8-Bit computer!

Hi everyone! Have you heard of the brand new 8-bit computer built from (mostly) off-the-shelf parts called Commander X16 made by a team of people under The 8-Bit Guy (David Murray)? If so what are ...
AOL

Internet Goes Wild After Man Builds Fully Functional 8-Bit Computer Entirely Out Of K’Nex

A man has gone viral after building a fully functional 8-bit computer out of K’Nex. In a video that has now amassed over 112,000 views, Kyle, known online as Shadowman39, debuted the Arithmetic and ...
Hackaday

A Breadboard Computer In Three Chips

Building a computer on a breadboard is a seminal project for many builders, but it can become complicated quite quickly, not to mention that all the parts needed for a computer are being placed on a ...
The Register on MSN

Reviving a CIDCO MailStation – the last Z80 computer

If launching it was crazy in 1999, then what's trying to use it today? FOSDEM 2026 Michal Pleban knows his old kit inside out, and his talk on the CIDCO MailStation was one of the most interesting of ...
EDN

Building a 4-Bit Computer: Mitigating Metastability (Part 1)

The fact that the designers of microcontrollers are so good at handling metastability explains why so few end users are aware of any potential problems As an aside, I was chatting with my ...