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Ben Eater

Ben Eater

Tutorial-style deep dives into electronics, computer architecture, networking and other technical subjects, explaining how computers really work from the ground up. Links: Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/beneater Paypal: https://paypal.me/beneater Twitter: https://x.com/beneater

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Episodes

46 episodes

  1. How do hardware timers work? 39:01
  2. Reverse engineering Microsoft BASIC 34:35
  3. How a transistor amplifies current | Digital electronics (6 of 10) 13:20
  4. Lower layers of the OSI model | Networking tutorial (7 of 13) 4:56
  5. Computer noises 24:43
  6. Hop-by-hop routing | Networking tutorial (11 of 13) 18:34
  7. Sound synth with a 6502 28:41
  8. Sending digital information over a wire | Networking tutorial (1 of 13) 6:58
  9. How do aircraft systems communicate? 28:32
  10. The SID: Classic 8-bit sound 42:30
  11. Analyzing actual Ethernet encoding | Networking tutorial (4 of 13) 13:00
  12. Modern SID chip substitutes 17:47
  13. Intro to fiber optics and RF encoding | Networking tutorial (2 of 13) 7:11
  14. Let's build a digital clock! 34:31
  15. The Internet Protocol | Networking tutorial (8 of 13) 13:18
  16. Making a square wave square: Breadboard clock part 2 29:03
  17. RS232 interface with the 6551 UART 29:29
  18. Looking at ARP and ping packets | Networking tutorial (10 of 13) 12:34
  19. 6502 serial interface 27:12
  20. Dividing a signal by counting: Breadboard clock part 3 19:19
  21. The RS-232 protocol 33:54
  22. The importance of framing | Networking tutorial (5 of 13) 12:34
  23. Let's build a voltage multiplier! 22:16
  24. Building the minutes and seconds for my clock: Breadboard clock part 4 35:20
  25. KA 60 Minutes Sep 2013 rerun (10x speed) 6:22
  26. Setting the time on my breadboard clock: Breadboard clock part 5 27:06
  27. Hacking a weird TV censoring device 27:43
  28. Fixing a hardware bug in software (65C51 UART) 32:34
  29. The transistor as a current controlled switch | Digital electronics (7 of 10) 7:14
  30. Experimenting with LEDs | Digital electronics (1 of 10) 13:58
  31. Running Apple 1 software on a breadboard computer (Wozmon) 19:07
  32. Programming Fibonacci on a breadboard computer 11:10
  33. How Wozniak’s code for the Apple 1 works 45:02
  34. Comparing C to machine language 13:46
  35. Adapting WozMon for the breadboard 6502 22:25
  36. Stepping through a program on the 8-bit breadboard computer 16:01
  37. A simple BIOS for my breadboard computer 28:37
  38. Programming my 8-bit breadboard computer 21:07
  39. Running MSBASIC on my breadboard 6502 computer 44:37
  40. How input buffering works 27:09
  41. TCP: Transmission control protocol | Networking tutorial (12 of 13) 12:13
  42. Powering our LED circuit | Digital electronics (3 of 10) 18:06
  43. Limiting current through an LED | Digital electronics (2 of 10) 16:48
  44. Clock synchronization and Manchester coding | Networking tutorial (3 of 13) 16:31
  45. Hacking Microsoft BASIC 23:47
  46. TCP connection walkthrough | Networking tutorial (13 of 13) 13:15