“Hello, world” from scratch on a 6502 — Part 1

What this video covers

Ben Eater starts a series building a working computer on breadboards around the 6502 microprocessor. In this first part he gets a 'hello world' running from scratch.

Why it surfaced in Hacker News

HN repeatedly recommends it as the best hands-on way to understand how a CPU and a computer work from first principles.

Recommendation context

Short excerpts from positive mentions. Open the source to read the full Hacker News discussion.

“The (awesome) youtube electronics teacher Ben Eater has just started a series of videos building a 6502 based computer on a breadboard”

“Here is an amazing video on how to build a computer based on 6502 on a breadboard”

“It is highly recommended if you want to dive down into computers and digital logic on first principles.”