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If you have tasted blood with our Z80 article of the last week, the following might be something for you, too.

Michael Sutton has been inspired by Ben Eater in 2020 like many others, and dared his own experiments on breadboards. But in his case based on the Zilog CPU.

In 5 separate articles on his blog he builds the basic machine, and gradually adds ROM, LC display, RAM and a keyboard. The start of the series can be found here.

For those who have built the BE6502, and are now looking for some … variety, this build may well be for you.

(But not for you Mr. D. 😁)

Michael's build is not quite as detailed as Ben Eater's - but since unfortunately nothing has been heard from the latter for more than 7 months, this project could be a nice pastime for friends of breadboards and cable strippers.

Happy stripping!

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