Comment by Jun8
8 days ago
Ben's videos are fantastic, learned a lot. For HW beginners like myself I suggest to skip the computer but just build the clock - very easy and great testing tool!
Here's my question: Obviously there's tremendous interest in kits like this. Why doesn't Ben or someone else create small company to:
* Modernize the components
* Update the videos
* Add additional modules to make the computer a bit more powerful
People would pay money for this. I would.
Isn't this essentially what Sparkfun and Adafruit do? There's very little margin in the components & kits, and the market is very tiny. Also if you're looking to make this computer "more powerful" you should look at something else. The specs for this are a toy computer, barely enough to demo the basic functions.