Here you will find all the construction details for each of the boards in this project which I will actively maintain to include the latest revision of boards and documentation. I’m not going to hand-hold you though the construction of these boards. They have PCB foils and most have schematics. It’s pretty much up to…

In this thrilling instalment we shall look at the 8 bit LED display card. This card is probably the simplest expansion card there is. It contains eight LEDs, and you can display any value from $00 to $FF by writing to a specified address. The address is specified on the card. The initial version of…

As a recap, I’ve got a runnable system. Programs can be entered into the systems memory in hex using the keypad and display then executed. However, as it stands there are no additional input or output devices; only the keypad and the LED display and it’s all a bit limiting really. It’s possible to separate…

In the first exciting part of this series we got to the point of a completed design for the CPU board. By this point I’d got a PCB and working system. I realise that I have skipped two topics that need to addressed now. The keypad/display, and an interim solution to the INS8514 I/O device.…