Video2NAND – Abusing video codecs for great computational power

Shared Object Video2NAND July 11, 2026 Much has been written about turning NAND gates into computers, yet knowledge of how to build these NAND gates is not as common. You may think that it’s in the realm of transistors and electrical engineering, but we’ll explore a much more exotic substrate: the video codec. Specifically, we’ll talk about the VP8 video codec and how to abuse its prediction mechanisms to simulate combinatorial logic. Our goal is to build up a set of composable