Home built Apollo Guidance Computer

Awesome. Who will build a Saturn V in their backyard? [Link]

"This report describes my successful project to build a working reproduction of the prototype for the Block I Apollo Guidance Computer. The AGC is the flight computer for the Apollo moon landings, with one unit in the command module and one in the LEM. I built it in my basement. It took me 4 years. If you like, you can build one too. It will take you less time, and yours will be better than mine."

Apollo Guidance Computer

The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) was the first recognizably modern embedded system, used in real-time by astronaut pilots to collect and provide flight information, and to automatically control all of the navigational functions of the Apollo spacecraft. It was developed in the early 1960s for the Apollo program by the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory under Charles Stark Draper, with hardware design led by Eldon C. Hall. Based upon MIT documents, early architectural work seems to have come from J.H. Laning Jr., Albert Hopkins, Ramon Alonso,^[1] and Hugh Blair-Smith.^[2] The actual flight hardware was fabricated by Raytheon, whose Herb Thaler^[3] was also on the architectural team.