Ben Eater decided to build his own VGA video card. Well, technically it’s more of a display adapter/controller since the card doesn’t provide any rendering or accelerate the image buffer generation portion – but it’s still a pretty fun watch.

This is pretty much how computer graphics started. Someone built a display controller. Then others added some helper hardware to speed up the buffer fills, then blitting, then rendering, AI upscaling/noise reduction, and now full on AI rendering. What a wild technology ride – but it was this early stuff that really got me excited about technology. You could create and build all of this kind of amazing stuff yourself.