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I'd love it if Ben sold a single package kit that had everything and printed instructions inside of it. It would be a fun thing for bored highschool students or university students.

Maybe it could even have a PCB that has everything socketed like a breadboard except closer together.

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I've actually been designing PCB versions of the modules for Ben Eaters tiny CPU, you can see them on my GitHub. Here's the latest one I've done, the ALU: https://github.com/lelandbatey/custom_cpu--ALU

Here's what the physical versions of the clock and the register look like during testing (red is clock, blue is register): https://goo.gl/photos/NSAEYVu7AbXVjcBK6

Very cool! I've been considering going this direction with the videos once I've finished everything for the breadboard version. Modular PCBs would make it a lot easier to rearrange things to experiment with different architectures, which could be interesting.

But I've got a lot of other ideas too, so who knows...

Wow these are great. Is your background in EE then?

No, my background is entirely in CS. This is the first circuit and electronics work I've done, though I have two friends much more acquainted with electronics than I who have been giving advice.

That would be super cool. In the meantime, The Dodo is higher level kit featuring a 6502 processor. http://www.dodolabs.io/

...and here is a project to make a discrete 6502, which currently isn't commercial but might be: http://monster6502.com/

jaw drops

Over 4000 surface mount components. But not many different part numbers. He probably has access to a pick and place machine.

Honestly Ben, you should seriously consider doing this.

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