Computer chips have become so tiny and complex that it’s sometimes hard to remember that there are real physical principles behind them. They aren’t just a bunch of ever-increasing numbers. For a ...

An eight-month project has finally built a working 8-bit processor within the Minecraft game. Minecraft builder "Sammyuri" spent seven months building what they call the Chungus 2, an enormously ...

A Minecraft player has successfully built an 8-bit processor inside the video game in an impressive and meta demo, as spotted by PCWorld. The master crafter, who goes by the handle “Sammyuri,” built ...

Some projects are a rite of passage within their respected fields. For computer science, building one’s own computer from scratch is certainly among those projects. Of course, we’re not talking about ...