Hardware Projects

I occasionally design little hardware projects, mostly for the computing science courses I took decades ago. For both my A Level project and my HND project, I designed and built 6502-based computers. Neither project was expected to have a hardware component by the courses’ examining boards, but I didn’t let that stop me. :-)

For my A Level Computing Science project, I designed a 6502-based single board computer that acts as a car burglar alarm. My HND project was much more ambitious: it was a 65C02-based computer, for which I wrote the operating system and a few example programs.

Mostly for my own reference, but also for whatever posterity they may deserve, I’ve decided to make the project documentation and source code available on this web site, under the Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license.

Here’s a list of the hardware projects currently available: