A fully functioning DIY bread-board computer


He made it out of simple discrete components, and explains it all in a very complete and detailed way, going down to the transistor level, while also presenting the high level view. Each video handles one part of his computer architecture in a clear fashion. Other videos go into the electronic fundamentals onto which his higher level components are based.

Obviously this computer has no advanced features such as caches, pipelines or predictive execution, but it is similar in architecture to the computers that are really used in practice, unlike a Turing machine. (Though TMs made out of Lego are cool as well).

Even if you have a computer science degree, this will be a very educational video series.

His website is also highly recommended: Build an 8-bit computer from scratch.

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