IMHO this and building an ALU with LEDs and logic gates should be part of ... well honestly any curriculum, even if you don't want to be study CS. Only doing that once in your life is enough to understand you could do it.

It was a "nerd" exploration few decades ago but nowadays so many of the things we do, from buying croissant to voting, is based on hardware and software. People should have a sense that yes it's complex but it's also NOT magic.