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Does anyone build their own computers from motherboards and other electronic components these days, say by soldering them on, or connecting them into slots? I
by fuzztester 2y ago
Does anyone build their own computers from motherboards and other electronic components these days, say by soldering them on, or connecting them into slots?
I don't have the background to do it, and not planning to, but am just interested to know. I used to read the Steve Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar column in BYTE long ago, just out of interest, even though I didn't have any knowledge of electronics.
- linker3000 2y agoHoo yep: https://z80kits.com/product-category/basekits/ https://z80kits.com/product-category/basekits/ https://smallcomputercentral.com/ https://smallcomputercentral.com/ https://j4f.info/start https://j4f.info/start http://www.searle.wales/ http://www.searle.wales/ To name a few. Steve's book is fascinating and a good intro to the architecture, but some of the chips used are quite obsolete (even more so that the mainstream obsolete ones!) and so building a computer from that book would be very challenging.
- cdcarter 2y agoHuge shout out to Small Computer Central/Steven Cousins. I have four or five machines designed by him, with various main boards and backplanes. The parts are all tested working, and the build instructions are comprehensive. It’s a very enjoyable project to go from a pile of parts to connecting to the UART and blinking some LEDs.