Watching Ben Eater's videos renewed my interest in making some simple computers out of old hardware, mainly because the older hardware is simple enough that you can work with it on a breadboard.
The interest eventually morphed into doing something with all of the old parts I've hoarded. Going through the bins of parts, I've found things like 8051 microcontrollers (P80C550) and UARTs (AM85C30) and some old RTC units (MC146818). I ended up picking up a few 68010's (among other things) off of eBay with the hope of building a breadboard Linux computer, as slow as that may be. I believe the 68010 may be the only CPU in a DIP package still supported in some capacity by Linux (as long as you provide an MMU).
Hopefully this will actually get me back into writing/making videos about my projects.
The interest eventually morphed into doing something with all of the old parts I've hoarded. Going through the bins of parts, I've found things like 8051 microcontrollers (P80C550) and UARTs (AM85C30) and some old RTC units (MC146818). I ended up picking up a few 68010's (among other things) off of eBay with the hope of building a breadboard Linux computer, as slow as that may be. I believe the 68010 may be the only CPU in a DIP package still supported in some capacity by Linux (as long as you provide an MMU).
Hopefully this will actually get me back into writing/making videos about my projects.