What is a computer
I really enjoyed watching this series a while back by Ben Eater:
“Building an 8-bit Breadboard Computer”
It explains a lot of the steps in the rocks-to-computer pipeline in detail. It assumes decent familiarity with electronics fundamentals, though. So maybe not the best starting point.
+1 for Ben Eater. There will be things you won’t understand, but for those at least you get a good starting point for reading them up.
EDIT: Main thing for me was to watch them when I was rested and could concentrate, and I didn’t binge them in one sitting; these are probably best consumed when they’re not just running in the background.
Computers can’t think, they are just calculators on steroids…
Cunk on Earth
There is a game called Turing complete where you start with simple logic gates and you start building upwards from there. Then you’re only missing the part where you build transistors from silicone wafers.
Demons it’s all demons.
