You might be reading this on a gaming PC you built yourself, but you probably can't say you built the processor from scratch with your own hands and a soldering iron. One DIY enthusiast did just that in a project that's an impressive look at how computers work, and how far they've come.
First reported by Tom's Hardware, Polish computing YouTuber Majsterkowanie i nie tylko (MINT for short) posted a video on his channel earlier this month showing off a working homemade CPU built with retro parts inspired by 8-bit microprocessors from the early days of PCs. MINT even specifically mentions the Zilog Z80, which was one of the most popular processors of the late 1970s and even became an early laptop chip in the 1980s.
