Google engineer builds PC from scratch

[foxh8er]

Meh..anyone can do that in Minecraft now...

[Eskapn223]

My fastest Processor is Intel i486 SX 25Mhz and Slowest is Amd Phenom II X6 T1090 3200Mhz

[FrapsYou]

Cant really be called scratch because, "If you wish to make a computer from scratch, You must first invent the universe".

[man4857]

I probably can do that in my own spare time if I had the time to.

It's the slow and painful way of putting together a CPU, like the old days in the 70s and 80s. But they're still REALLY fun to do. If people want to learn more about this I suggest you dig into topics about: digital logic design, combinational and sequential logic, transistor-transistor logic (TTL), 7400 series, and RISC architecture.

[ikevcolt]

who cares about computers or even worse building them, just buy a mac derp

[bionkillay]

He thinks he has mastered the field of hardware? Thinks? Seriously?

[FieryPhoenix7]

Computer engineering is boring as fuck. Mark my words, this idiot is a virgin.

[TehRandomFood]

@FieryPhoenix7 idiot? How ironic.

[EliteRussianTV]

@FieryPhoenix7 you like consoles don't you ?

[memadmax69]

"70 days without rebooting"

Thats because it's not running windows.. dos... os x... or some other way over engineered OS...

It runs linux... =D

[tcbetka]

Google has so much money, paying this fellow to do this (and I'll bet he didn't do it *all* at work) is a pittance. This has PR value for them. And how much better do you think he'll be at software development, now that he truly understands the hardware end of it? I say great job--we need more guys like him.

[khaninator]

@tcbetka Doesn't say that it was his 20% project.

[tcbetka]

@khaninator Huh?

[volikoto]

hes one of a kind...

[Tadesan]

Anyone care to guess at how much salaried time he wasted on this project?

[Armand0008]

@Tadesan None, people who work for google get a certain percent of time to work on a porject of their own but if the end project is profitable google gets the right to it.

[hugoestr]

@Tadesan I doubt any since it took him 8 years to finish. Had he been working at work on this, he should have finished it much earlier.

[MrGarrett9929]

put on some bf3 footage running on it lol im doing that

[isaac9517]

Holy Shit 4mb too much ?!?! I think 4gb is shitty

[Shotxofxvalor]

@isaac9517 he made it all from scratch.

[system0system0]

omg

[moralreef]

christ, 20-30 year old parts, this is why DIP needs to keep going. keep power in the hands of the hobbyists

[ApathyIsKillingMe]

4 MHz... i ROFL'd, but damn, no way i could do that!

[SebbieHE]

I use that monitor for CoD 4!

[c35213]

Bravo

[Bp1033]

I've always wanted to do this.

[kinmanyuen]

hah the thing is packed with blue maggots like wires

[Rianmonty]

How to make a computer:

Step 1: put down everything

Step 2 : buy a computer

:D

[jelleverest]

see this guy, he built his own computer and programmed it:

/watch?v=qYvr0b8jqbg&feature=r­elated

[OutlawLovesNewVegas]

Damn... I thought he was just putting parts in, not building the parts!

[Youpuber]

Make it thinner.

[theNguitar]

Did he write a C compiler for his CPU? :)

[chromosome24]

@theNguitar no it was hand compiled.

[hobbymaster001]

One person doesn't know how to use a computer.

[neophyt1983]

My hat's off to ya sir.

[ThorBarstad]

Being a software engineer I´m sure he also programs using a magnetic needle.

[johnny7782]

I love this man.

[ChazZeromus]

Still looking forward to a water-log based computer.

[AORCrazy]

he soldered memory chips and bus by hand?? massive respect!!

[xaviercsc]

Great efforts unknown geniuses are putting in.. they never gets recognised...Nowadays everybody is only trying to renovate or modify the existing technology .... We actually need new machines/engines , new power source and many new things which the present technology won't be able to handle with limited resources in coming years ....

[cryptexify]

i want to reach that level of geekiness!!

[jwg811]

technology is the future

[CrimelabS]

wow from basic logic ic's thats gonna need alot of circuit space and voltage regulation... great respect

[frogvillage]

back yard space shuttle is in progress...with this computer.

[xshalludiex]

He built the instruction paths by hand!? How many instructions does this machine execute?

[allenu]

"But then I kind of let it get out of control". That's how a lot of great projects get started. :) I've been there...

[GAKtion64]

RESPECT!

[dumyyyyyy]

Respect man!, The world need more people like you! Unfortunately people like you are one at one million! . Once again, great job!

[FuzzDog525]

4MB!? 640K is all you need!

[cryptexify]

@FuzzDog525 lol. bill gates said that, no? :P

[FuckMrMind]

if u had to blow up silicon valley i think America's overall IQ would drop about 50%

[pureawesomeness2012]

@FuckMrMind if you were to kill all the lawyers, america's average IQ would become OVER NINE THOUSAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bradbrock1]

Bet it cant run minecraft very well :P

[l67swap1]

Nice

[Shorty20122012]

The modern day Steven Wozniak. :D

[MechWarrior324]

People like this inspire me. I want to design a 4-bit CPU from scratch, and see if it could run a program like Pong, haha.

But I already have quite a bit of experience with building gaming desktop PC's, so it's definately not impossible.

[hardstyle905]

@MechWarrior324 You should. Also, make videos of your progress if you do and don't hesitate to PM me them :) A very basic 4-bit CPU 's basically what I wanna do too. I'm simulating it in software before I start building though.

[MechWarrior324]

@hardstyle905 Very nice. It'll be a while before I start, if I start. I have been very busy lately. But if and when I do, I'll be sure to keep you posted. :)

[voltagedrop]

4MB of memory aught to be enough for anyone.

[eMGeeGFX]

He's not the first one to have ever done this, several people have done this (even with wirewrap boards). Even his motivation and inspiration, the glorious DEC PDP, is quite similar to that of others.

Nice VT100, by the way! He's clearly into DEC (and so am I). I wouldn't mind having one of those.

[yakacm]

as someone else said, good job, that's as cool as anything

[tpksym]

Google android engineer wearing NOKIA's tag?

WTF?

[eMGeeGFX]

@tpksym, I just noticed that as well. 

[tpksym]

@eMGeeGFX it seems like nokia's making android mobiles!

[iBenJay]

@tpksym just a strap...

[suger473]

GOOD JOB!!!!!!!!!!



[perplexedmoth]

this shows how much free time those guys at google have.

[ereignisfelder]

how much money did he spend?

[Pollack007]

lol my home phone is faster:D

[daleskill1]

But will it blend?

[TableWolfMusic]

He put a blue light in it. He just couldn't resist pimping it, could he?

[pvx]

Wow, this is awesome. Such extreme retro-chic going on here! This system is much like a hobbyist-style minicomputer from the late 1970's, in the vein of the Altair 8800s, the IMSAIs, the or any machine of that era (it even uses a terminal, much like those machines). Kudos to Mr. Buzbee!

[the777brian]

But, can it play Crysis 2?

[myguitardidyermom12]

I see the Big Mess O' Wires behind him.

[akoskovacs0]

Impressive!

[DoubleM55]

That's the most impressive way not to get laid... :)

[Php48]

Its not exactly from scratch. To be from scratch I would like to see sand being melted and silicon being doped plus photographic etching, or a room full of homemade valves. 

[vigilhammer]

@Php48 Then u came to the wrong place... find another video

[perplexedmoth]

@Php48 Actually litographic IC etching is a lot easier nowadays, cept the material costs.

[hardstyle905]

@Php48 fag

[Php48]

@hardstyle905 ,,,, I'm no rectum ranger mate.

[ObiDanKinobi]

@Php48 Now theres an idea.

I wonder if anyone has actually individually crafted the materials and assembled the parts into a computer.

That'd make for interesting viewing!

On a desert island with nothing but raw materials and a few years to spare, can you create a working computer!

[MrJordanstech]

nice.

[CClassicVideos]

That's awesome!

[Zagroseckt]

lol i see the BMO sign back there ... suprised they didnt minchen big mess o wieres

[mackeyorama]

Brilliant stuff! If he starts making his own transistors like Jeri Ellsworth this would be amazing and it would really be a home brew computer. How about some vacuum tubes for RAM also??

[Mosfet510]

@mackeyorama Vacuum tubes for RAM, hehe, now that would be different! Im going to try that for 1gb of RAM, but Ill send you my electric bill lol

[sixstringmania]

R E S P E C T ! ! ! ! ! ! !

[Mushketer888]

not too complicated

[cejaybee]

People here have no idea that tens of thousands of people built their computers from scratch. From TTL. History didn't start after 1985.

Make Magazine == consumed by clueless wannabe cyberhipsters with lots of money that millionaire publishers want more of.

[Mushketer888]

@cejaybee much more...

[CrazyAngelDude]

This guy is a genious, well done. Cheers!

[Barry3443]

0.3 MIPS? LOL My unexpanded Amiga had 1.3 MIPS 20 years ago. Junk!

[Fordz]

He starts gettin REALLY boring at 1:25 but I just can't stop listening to him.

He's beautiful.

[Braunik]

That's a talent!

[jeremya5]

4mghz... and it can surf the net?

[schmarotzer]

@jeremya5 "serve", not surf. That means that you can access that thing with your browser and it will answer with a website that your browser can then display.

[olickel]

It actually sounds pretty easy, considering he used a relatively modern RAM and SRAM chips. Even then, this guy is a genius. I am actually curious as to whether he used any cache at all, and if he did, what chips he used to do it. I really couldn't find many DIP cache chips.

[part2themovie]

this is blasphemy! only god' makes computers not man

[MelanikusMelkor]

GodLike

[Circuit6040]

Bravo! Very impressive! I have no doubt that you have read the book The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder, which as you know, tells the story of the Herculean effort necessary to develop and successfully construct such machines. If anyone out there wants to truly understand the significance of what Buzbee1 has accomplished here, you absolutely need to read this book. Thank you for keeping this art alive.

[Ormaaj]

Holy shit, that thing is running minix? omg!

He would have even had to write his own compiler for his custom instruction set. O_O

[leahcim165]

I made an ALU, but turning that into a full computer running a version of Linux seems like a near godlike feat. This dude is my hero.

[AmazonianBeauty]

Geek!!

In the ultimate most form

I admire his geekiness and only wish i had the technical know how to do something like that!!

Way cool!!

[Kesh789]

@AmazonianBeauty look up the geek group on youtube

[ZachariasClub]

@AmazonianBeauty Is he geek or is he nerd?

[xThexMaXx]

@AmazonianBeauty lol build a computer? Thats easy as fuck... Now building the CPU THats really fucking hard. Just buy a fucking CPU.

[perplexedmoth]

@xThexMaXx This guy actually built the CPU.

[xThexMaXx]

@perplexedmoth no shit. lol @ you being retarded and not reading the comment.

[perplexedmoth]

@xThexMaXx I read both your and AmazonianBitch's comment. this is a homebrew cpu.

[xThexMaXx]

@perplexedmoth ...

[EpicTwistedOne]

@AmazonianBeauty Geeks are retarded. THIS GUYS A N3RD!!!111one111elevel11!!

[darijo203]

I admire your work. I started creating logic for CPU in Verilog and also thinking about putting it to HW.

[ingej32]

He's prolly doing this as a hobby.

You have a problem with that?

[p0th3adny]

what if because he started from scratch he ended up making a whole new kind of processor totally different from the one we have now and is like 10 times better? You never know

[benopolly]

@p0th3adny intel IS making acomputer that is a million different simple processors, each doing just a simple task. the CPU works similar to our brain. It was introduced 2009 I think and I forget where. anyways 2020 if our governments dont collapse into revolutionary anarchy or fall into complete totalitarianism, CPU's will be human brain-like.

[hardstyle905]

@benopolly CPU's are anything but brain-like. Unless someone makes a kind of bio-electrical CPU, which is pure science fiction. But no, the brain consists of billions of cells connected to each other through synapses. It also doesn't think in binary.

[benopolly]

@hardstyle905 ibm just made a chip that changes its connections like synapses.brain like computing will eventually be combined with our computers

!Many aliens are classified as synthetic lifeforms aka cyborgs. that includes brains that have been worked on for thousands of years. the computing density of brains are amazing but not perfect! we evolved! bio electrical IS hard so your rightonthat rumor has it aliens use half the brain as biological, the other half as "electrical"both sides connected

[networkworld]

I think it's more about the journey of making the PC to see if he could do it, rather than the final product / destination.

[Exoskull969]

pretty cool but worthless today