Stumbled across this recently and thought it was pretty damn cool: http://www.nand2tetris.org/
Got there, from here: http://www.ted.com/talks/shimon_schocken_the_self_organizing_computer_course.html Got there, from here: http://hackaday.com/2012/11/01/how-computers-work-starting-with-transistor-gates/Apologies in advance if this is the wrong place to share it (let me know where instead).
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