[Animats]

Somebody is way too into solderless breadboards.

I can see building a CPU from smaller components, but not dealing with loose connections in that mess.

[eco]

Ben Eater had a whole video on why he encourages building a breadboard computer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCbAafKLqC8

A lot of people have taken what they've learned and moved on to designing their own PCB versions. You can see some of them here: https://www.reddit.com/r/beneater

[asddubs]

ben eater does a little bit of wire management though. i'd hate for a wire to pop out in that rats nest

[LargoLasskhyfv]

While the color coating of the wires can be useful, I preferred enameled copper wire/magnet winding wire of 0.3mm gauge, when I did such stuff. Maybe 0.2mm, NOT 0.1mm!(too soft) At 0.3mm they are tightly bendable, stay in place after bending them, and can touch each other. This enables building of esthetically pleasing structures, instead of the pictured mess. Imagine something like the pipes screensaver from the WinNT 4 days, but shining in copper. Also usable to wire together LED-cubes or similar structures.

[sokoloff]

Reminds me of the old MIT 6.004 nerd kits. (Roughly a suitcase-sized briefcase with breadboards and TTL components to build a CPU with.)