OMG! The restraint to not open that package when you got it. You sir have a power I can only dream of. 😂😂😂 thank you for making this project open source. Not all heroes wear capes.
This is my favourite 6502 computer design of 2023. I love the focus on how accessible it is to get hardware manufactured these days even as a hobbiest at low volume. Hats off to an excellent design well executed.
Great video and thank you for making this available for the community, Nice and easy build, like it a lot, I’m a 6502 fan of the Apple II forever a big Hello From Spain 😉🦾
Great project, I like what can be done with old and new technology and this project showcases this. If you had 300 of these to publically give away sure to start a riot.😅
Greetings from Ireland. I'm so glad this came up on my feed. I was an apple II guy back in the day I think I have watched everything on TH-cam about the 6502! Great work
Truly impressed with your design and software. The fact that you have even made it all freely available is stunning. I am late to the game here... I think I have 10 more videos to catch up with. Very much appreciated. Thank you for sharing!
Thank you for bringing this project alive. It's something I wanted to do for a long time. My first computer was a Rockwell AIM 65, which I unfortunately don't have anymore. Maybe this will bring the 6502 spirit back into my life.
I'd been wanting to build something based on the 6502 for a couple of years, and was fascinated by this project since you announced it and I've been following your progress. When you posted this video, I quickly downloaded the gerber files and placed my order with PCBWay (I already had most of the parts, intending to build the breadboard version, but just not having the time.) After a few hours of soldering, everything went together as easy as that, and it just worked! This is so cool. I've got to finish setting up the development system so that I can do something "useful" with it, but I'm super happy!
Darn, now I have to see your code to learn how you interconnected both picos, but I am betting in serial. But maybe it is something more devious! Congratulations!
This is giving me flash backs to my 1986 II-e, but I had extended memory, and no color. Spent many cold lonely nights in the lab bread boarding my homebrew GC-MS senior project with my macro assembler. My kit had 6522VIA (spoofed phi2), RTC, 12-bit ADC, used a couple of AD521 amps, even learned to format ProDOS in assembly language ... the very first disk I formatted was my source code, so I did even see that mispluggary.
Thanks for putting together the Gerber and BOM files, Rumbledethump! Makes making this so easy... Thanks also for the humungous amount of time you must have poured into this project...
Very nice ! I’ve been following you on this project for a while. The conception is above my pay grade but I can appreciate it as I cut my teeth on a C64. Thank you very much for the great work! Cheers from Canada!
I wish I knew more about this stuff. I couldn't get past the lack of no pick n place file at jlcpcb, and pcbway is alien because they expect you to enter a lot of info (pcb size, number of components, etc...) that will all be answered when you upload the files, but you can't get to that without all the numbers first. pcbway kinda sucks in that regard. so I'm at a standstill. oh well... i'm glad you figured it out lol. i wish there was someone that could provide kits...
All the necessary info should be detected after you upload the gerbers. No need to change any form fields unless you want to. Web developers like to change things multiple times a day so maybe that will change. If you have any trouble with a manufacturer web site, send both zip files to your sales rep and they can help. They help people all day long with projects that are far more complex.
I only stumbled across this today - and have binge-watched nearly all of them now ;) Love the idea and the fact it's using the real processor (I've got an FPGA-based board as well but find that lacks the real nostalgia factor). I'd better start saving up to get one for myself! Excellent project and videos.😎
Awesome! This is such a good project, and I love how easy everything is, and how easily available all the parts are. I'm starting to teach my kids about computers, and things like this are really exciting to them. :)
I've watched a lot of this series now, and I have the boards in my cart with jlcpcb and a Mouser cart brimming with enough stuff to make a couple of these. Why a couple, um, because?.?.?.... Very cool project, I look forward to playing around with the computer, especially with an OG Commodore keyboard, or Mechboard, either way.
Growing up with 6502/Z80/etc., there's a good amount of nostalgia watching this. I'm very impressed with the documentation of the RP6502: great attention to technical details!
Great project and video. I'm pleased people are still using the 6502. Many of us "old timers" cut our programming teeth on this CPU when it was popular in a good proportion of home computers back in the 70's and 80s.
Pretty cool what you did with this project, in going from breadboarding to bare PCB to populated PCB - you cover all the bases for various skill levels! Looking forward to seeing what you'll do with it next!
Well, I got my boards from PCB way and built it... I used Pico W boards and it works just fine... I also note that the LED on the Pico W board doesn't come on... and I now understand the design of the 3 header pins on the RIA Pico... My only issue is my HDMI its not correctly showing the screen... I need to drag out my old monitor so I can see the screen properly... Yea... I will try to post a picture on you twitter...
Cool to see a pre-populated pcbway product. It also made me giggle that there are two massive pi picos that could easily emulate the 6502 on one of the two cores 😂But that’s not the point. All you now need to do is build a forth rom this is the ideal platform for forth.
Watched some of these videos a few months ago, then started from the beginning tonight instead of bingeing some starwars show. You go rather fast through a lot of the hardware stuff for a mere software guy like myself, a bit tricky to follow some of it but it's all good. Impressive work dude!
This project must be a great kick-start for learning about 6502 and circuit design in general. I cannot wait to look into it the upcoming days. Thanks a lot for sharing your work! 😊
I've always thought it's a great concept to mix new and "old" electronics to make a retro computer. The RP2040s look as though they do an amazing job replacing all those legacy discrete ICs needed for decoding, etc. Congratulations on a very neat and well thought out project.
WoW nice work, I feel better seeing your little mistake. Nice to know I'm not the only one... Anyway, great video as always and thanks for bringing us all for the ride.
@@rumbledethumps Thank you! It arrived today. I wasn't expecting the standoff hardware too, that was a nice surprise. I look forward to putting it together once the active parts I ordered arrive. 🙂
This is a super cool project. I've been messing around with the 6502 and looking for a simple way to play with one with little hardware debugging.. Thanks for making this!
I followed this project since the beginning because I was looking for help for getting into circuits, and schematics. I got to say the evolution of this has been really awesome.... Honestly can't wait to see what the community does.... I know someone out there wants to put a third pico where the 6502 is....
this is absolutely wonderful! I will have one shortly! kudos!! I'm hoping you have plans to do the same with a 65C816, simply because they support 16mb ram and have so much more potential. well, here's my quarter thrown in the wishing well. Thanks again, you rock!
Yeah that would be really cool. Also just to mention if somebody wanted to, they could replace the 6502 with another raspberry pi Pico, and the pico could be its own processor, or emulate the 6502 and 65816....
Awesome. This is like me being back in 1982, with a Cray X-MP as a dev environment for my VIC-20. So I now have a use for the 65C02 chipset I bought but never used (yet). Cheers!
The attention to detail is fantastic. Completely new to this project but it's clear that a lot of time and planning went into it. Also a great display of how advanced on-demand PCB manufacturing has become (especially for the price!)
Just discovered this project! Definitely thinking about building one myself. Coincidentally found your channel right after ordering a neo6502 from Olimex :)
Nice project. I'm currently still unsure to build a picocomputer 6502 or a neo6502 or something similar, but definitely not a X16. On a first step I'm reactivating my CBM 610 to get more familiar with 6502 assembler.
First off, thank you for all your time in creating this project and making it available. I have ordered my kit from PCBWay and am hoping to receive it soon. Just a heads up that, as of 3/20/2024, opting for the $30 ‘Build’ option has resulted in a 36 day delay in shipping. (I’m working with the sales rep now to either improve that date or remove & refund the $30 Build line item so that I can get going on working with the RP6502 as soon as possible. They wanted the Centroid file but accepted that it wasn’t absolutely necessary to place the order. The lack of it, however, does seem to have slowed down their ability to ship the order.)
I received by PCBWay built picoComputer, plugged in all of the IC's and it is working well. The component that slowed down the build was the '47uF Radial Ceramic Capacitor >=10V'.
Nice work! I dabled with using the PiPico as a glue locic alternative for my 65c02 breadboard computer. I ended up sticking with 74AHC series chips because I wanted mine to work at 5V and 10 MHz. I have not finished it yet.
I'm so happy to see the community building around the 6502 nearly 50 years after its release! Now I can put my stack of assembly books to use.
Yeah, I still have my original Rodney Zaks 6502 programing book. A little dog eared now...
That misaligned chip was a good lesson to inspect the board before moving on. Well done for leaving that in the final edit.
What a neat project. Kudos for not editing out the mistake.
Oh, I thought he'd done it by design, to hook up a TTL debug probe or something, ... But I was wondering how that 74 chip got its power.
OMG! The restraint to not open that package when you got it. You sir have a power I can only dream of. 😂😂😂 thank you for making this project open source. Not all heroes wear capes.
I think i found a use for some of my picos
Great work. Was looking to use a Pi pico to provide usb keyboard to parrellel for my old Z80 Rade system from the 1980s.
This is my favourite 6502 computer design of 2023. I love the focus on how accessible it is to get hardware manufactured these days even as a hobbiest at low volume. Hats off to an excellent design well executed.
Well done. It's the soldering that's putting me off, as I don't have the coordination after a car accident.
This thing is super cool, thanks for making an approachable 6502 project, man. You deserve all of the kudos!
Great video and thank you for making this available for the community, Nice and easy build, like it a lot, I’m a 6502 fan of the Apple II forever a big Hello From Spain 😉🦾
Great project, I like what can be done with old and new technology and this project showcases this. If you had 300 of these to publically give away sure to start a riot.😅
Greetings from Ireland. I'm so glad this came up on my feed. I was an apple II guy back in the day I think I have watched everything on TH-cam about the 6502! Great work
Truly impressed with your design and software. The fact that you have even made it all freely available is stunning. I am late to the game here... I think I have 10 more videos to catch up with. Very much appreciated. Thank you for sharing!
Thank you for bringing this project alive. It's something I wanted to do for a long time. My first computer was a Rockwell AIM 65, which I unfortunately don't have anymore. Maybe this will bring the 6502 spirit back into my life.
I'd been wanting to build something based on the 6502 for a couple of years, and was fascinated by this project since you announced it and I've been following your progress. When you posted this video, I quickly downloaded the gerber files and placed my order with PCBWay (I already had most of the parts, intending to build the breadboard version, but just not having the time.) After a few hours of soldering, everything went together as easy as that, and it just worked! This is so cool. I've got to finish setting up the development system so that I can do something "useful" with it, but I'm super happy!
Thank you for your work
Awsome design, planning and effort to deliver this interesting computer.
I love that this is in the spirit of the inexpensive computers we grew up with in the late 70s and 80s.
Indeed. The Commander and the Foenix tuned out to be more expensive than planned.
I'm back to my childhood! Awesome stuff!
Gr8 project and nice design! Please publish more videos about. I'd like to watch about the audio output 😊
This is very cool and super nice of you to share all this work!
Im tight in money now but it would be an awesome winter project and i shall make sure you are thanked
Nice way to demonstrate the process of going from breadboard to complete project.
Super Thanks!!
Darn, now I have to see your code to learn how you interconnected both picos, but I am betting in serial. But maybe it is something more devious! Congratulations!
This is giving me flash backs to my 1986 II-e, but I had extended memory, and no color. Spent many cold lonely nights in the lab bread boarding my homebrew GC-MS senior project with my macro assembler. My kit had 6522VIA (spoofed phi2), RTC, 12-bit ADC, used a couple of AD521 amps, even learned to format ProDOS in assembly language ... the very first disk I formatted was my source code, so I did even see that mispluggary.
Thanks for putting together the Gerber and BOM files, Rumbledethump! Makes making this so easy... Thanks also for the humungous amount of time you must have poured into this project...
Great project!
Thank you!
After assembling the whole thing it looks beautiful 👌
Very nice ! I’ve been following you on this project for a while. The conception is above my pay grade but I can appreciate it as I cut my teeth on a C64. Thank you very much for the great work! Cheers from Canada!
Very clever. Fantastic design
Great idea, great project! Thanks
This is a great project! I've ordered a couple Pi Picos to build my own. Looking forward to tinkering with it!
I wish I knew more about this stuff. I couldn't get past the lack of no pick n place file at jlcpcb, and pcbway is alien because they expect you to enter a lot of info (pcb size, number of components, etc...) that will all be answered when you upload the files, but you can't get to that without all the numbers first. pcbway kinda sucks in that regard. so I'm at a standstill. oh well... i'm glad you figured it out lol. i wish there was someone that could provide kits...
All the necessary info should be detected after you upload the gerbers. No need to change any form fields unless you want to. Web developers like to change things multiple times a day so maybe that will change. If you have any trouble with a manufacturer web site, send both zip files to your sales rep and they can help. They help people all day long with projects that are far more complex.
Nice project, I hope it will continue to evolve and generate a community around it. Thanks to share it.
Thank you so much for the video ❤
I only stumbled across this today - and have binge-watched nearly all of them now ;)
Love the idea and the fact it's using the real processor (I've got an FPGA-based board as well but find that lacks the real nostalgia factor).
I'd better start saving up to get one for myself!
Excellent project and videos.😎
I think I've finally found a project to start with my young son as our first co-build, thanks! Also, glad the magic smoke didn't escape.
I'm a software dev looking into hardware development, love the channel
Awesome project! Can't wait for the 68000 version ;)
Love how simple and straightforward you made it.
This is so cool! I'm very impressed.
Awesome project! It's been great following the development of this idea into a production-ready machine - kudos to you, sir!
I purchased all the parts, now I just need a board. Great project!
Possibly the easiest way to play on a 6502 I've seen to date. looks like a load of fun.
What a great project to give some exposure to electronic design and programming.
Awesome! This is such a good project, and I love how easy everything is, and how easily available all the parts are. I'm starting to teach my kids about computers, and things like this are really exciting to them. :)
I've watched a lot of this series now, and I have the boards in my cart with jlcpcb and a Mouser cart brimming with enough stuff to make a couple of these. Why a couple, um, because?.?.?.... Very cool project, I look forward to playing around with the computer, especially with an OG Commodore keyboard, or Mechboard, either way.
Because... one is the loneliest number that you'll ever do.
Brings back my childhood memories. I loved the BBC model B ❤️
Awesome video , great work , look forward to more
Growing up with 6502/Z80/etc., there's a good amount of nostalgia watching this. I'm very impressed with the documentation of the RP6502: great attention to technical details!
Great project and video. I'm pleased people are still using the 6502. Many of us "old timers" cut our programming teeth on this CPU when it was popular in a good proportion of home computers back in the 70's and 80s.
Nicely done, great project. I have started to make the breadboard version build
Pretty cool what you did with this project, in going from breadboarding to bare PCB to populated PCB - you cover all the bases for various skill levels! Looking forward to seeing what you'll do with it next!
Thanks!
Thank you!
Very nice indeed, I really enjoy tinkering about with old 6502 stuff and this looks really fun.
This was amazing. Last I looked I was having trouble getting less than 3 from pcbway so this is cool.
Well, I got my boards from PCB way and built it... I used Pico W boards and it works just fine... I also note that the LED on the Pico W board doesn't come on... and I now understand the design of the 3 header pins on the RIA Pico... My only issue is my HDMI its not correctly showing the screen... I need to drag out my old monitor so I can see the screen properly... Yea... I will try to post a picture on you twitter...
Posting on the GibHub forums will get the problem in front of more eyes.
Cool to see a pre-populated pcbway product. It also made me giggle that there are two massive pi picos that could easily emulate the 6502 on one of the two cores 😂But that’s not the point. All you now need to do is build a forth rom this is the ideal platform for forth.
Watched some of these videos a few months ago, then started from the beginning tonight instead of bingeing some starwars show. You go rather fast through a lot of the hardware stuff for a mere software guy like myself, a bit tricky to follow some of it but it's all good. Impressive work dude!
A nice project with great potential. Not only that it's a breeze to build from watching the video. Great project 🎉
This project must be a great kick-start for learning about 6502 and circuit design in general. I cannot wait to look into it the upcoming days. Thanks a lot for sharing your work! 😊
Awesome project! Very clean final product
This project looks awesome !! ( Really hope I can get my hands on one 🤞)
I've always thought it's a great concept to mix new and "old" electronics to make a retro computer. The RP2040s look as though they do an amazing job replacing all those legacy discrete ICs needed for decoding, etc. Congratulations on a very neat and well thought out project.
WoW nice work, I feel better seeing your little mistake. Nice to know I'm not the only one... Anyway, great video as always and thanks for bringing us all for the ride.
Nice to see that even someone so experienced as you sometimes makes simple errors.
This is an awesome awesome project, well done for pulling this altogether and for a great intro video, it's a lot of work and hopefully fun too!
Looks like a fun project. I'll have to give it a build myself.
Cool project 😎👍 Good memories of 6502 & Z80 based early computing, My 1st computer used Z80 and my 2nd used 6502.
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@@rumbledethumps Thank you! It arrived today. I wasn't expecting the standoff hardware too, that was a nice surprise. I look forward to putting it together once the active parts I ordered arrive. 🙂
Very nice project well done!
Nice and tidy design 👍 Thanks for the demonstration
Awesome project, thank you for keeping everything open source too!
awesome project!
Awesome design! I love when a mixture of old and new come together to make something powerful!
I love those 8-bit computers so much nostalgia
This is a super cool project. I've been messing around with the 6502 and looking for a simple way to play with one with little hardware debugging.. Thanks for making this!
Kudos for open hardware and software. I wish I had more time for more soldering and hacking.
I was considering doing this one, need a use for my PICOs - cute design.
I followed this project since the beginning because I was looking for help for getting into circuits, and schematics. I got to say the evolution of this has been really awesome.... Honestly can't wait to see what the community does.... I know someone out there wants to put a third pico where the 6502 is....
Looks real good, what is that, Wozmon?
this is absolutely wonderful! I will have one shortly! kudos!! I'm hoping you have plans to do the same with a 65C816, simply because they support 16mb ram and have so much more potential. well, here's my quarter thrown in the wishing well. Thanks again, you rock!
Yeah that would be really cool. Also just to mention if somebody wanted to, they could replace the 6502 with another raspberry pi Pico, and the pico could be its own processor, or emulate the 6502 and 65816....
Awesome. This is like me being back in 1982, with a Cray X-MP as a dev environment for my VIC-20. So I now have a use for the 65C02 chipset I bought but never used (yet). Cheers!
The attention to detail is fantastic. Completely new to this project but it's clear that a lot of time and planning went into it. Also a great display of how advanced on-demand PCB manufacturing has become (especially for the price!)
I love this video series!
Great project! Love the simplicity and the use of the Picos!
Awesome project. I have always loved the single board computers. For projects like this half the fun is soldering in all the components.
awesome project would love to see more of u greetings from the netherlands :) o and hope u had fun building the project :)
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Great video. Haven‘t seen this project before.
Just discovered this project! Definitely thinking about building one myself. Coincidentally found your channel right after ordering a neo6502 from Olimex :)
Exciting project. Thank you for sharing.
Nice project. I'm currently still unsure to build a picocomputer 6502 or a neo6502 or something similar, but definitely not a X16. On a first step I'm reactivating my CBM 610 to get more familiar with 6502 assembler.
Def adding this to my summer project list!
First off, thank you for all your time in creating this project and making it available. I have ordered my kit from PCBWay and am hoping to receive it soon.
Just a heads up that, as of 3/20/2024, opting for the $30 ‘Build’ option has resulted in a 36 day delay in shipping. (I’m working with the sales rep now to either improve that date or remove & refund the $30 Build line item so that I can get going on working with the RP6502 as soon as possible. They wanted the Centroid file but accepted that it wasn’t absolutely necessary to place the order. The lack of it, however, does seem to have slowed down their ability to ship the order.)
I received by PCBWay built picoComputer, plugged in all of the IC's and it is working well. The component that slowed down the build was the '47uF Radial Ceramic Capacitor >=10V'.
This looks awesome! Thanks for all your work!
Holy Crap I Gotta Look this Up!
This is CRAZY Awesome!
Lets See what else it can do!
I've greatly enjoyed following your project, awesome job!!!
Nice work!
I dabled with using the PiPico as a glue locic alternative for my 65c02 breadboard computer. I ended up sticking with 74AHC series chips because I wanted mine to work at 5V and 10 MHz. I have not finished it yet.
Thanks for sharing your design!
Great project
Watching this project with interest