Years ago I came upon Ben Eater’s series of YouTube videos about building an 8-bit computer on a series of breadboards. I watched the entire series but didn’t have the energy to complete the project myself. Then a few months ago I decided to finally give it a go. After toiling away with wires for around three months, spending way too much money, and starting over twice, I finally completed my modified build of Ben’s computer (which is the SAP-1 from the book Digital Computer Electronics by Albert Paul Malvino).