This long weekend (4 nights, 3 days) I built Ben Eater's 6502 computer kit (along with the clock module as a pre-requisite). Just got to the point where it prints "Hello, World!" on the LCD. The most time-consuming part is that I'm making the wires nice and neat like he does, so there's a lot of measuring, cutting, bending, and stripping wires. One of the funniest parts was the first few programs run off of ROM. When you first add subroutines, it doesn't actually work because there's no actual RAM yet; it needs RAM in order for the jump to subroutine to push the return address on a stack in RAM. So hooking up a RAM chip is another 30 or so wires that you have to make. I suppose at some point I will make a Forth for it. I had been wanting to get the kit for years, but finally got around to it by asking for the kit for Christmas.
