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I built one of those Ben Eater 8 bit breadboard computers, which I'm pretty proud of.
How would you rate your jumper wire neatness compared with his?
An attempt was certainly made to keep it tidy.
Wow I thought you meant the 6502 computer, but it looks like that's the original one made of logic gates and shift registers, right?
Yep, that's the one! I 100% want to give the 6502 a shot too, would be fun to run something more complex than a Fibonacci Sequence on it, haha.
Is a copy of Ben Eaters or did you do your own thing?
I largely followed along with his build, but tried to rearrange everything to be more compact.
I also had to make some changes to get it to work, since there are actually a few well-known issues with the way it's done in the videos.
I have plans to hook it up to a Raspberry Pi Pico, and set up a webserver so people can control it online. Could be a fun mod for sure.
Very cool!
I was recently at a maker space that had thousands of unused ICs and thought this would be an excellent project. I couldn't really interest anyone else. They wanted to just keep hording the things away.