We made a beautiful complete open-hardware computer, including keyboard and injection-moulded case
summary
A complete, community‑designed open‑hardware MEGA65 is built end‑to‑end: custom motherboard (Xilinx Artix‑7 100T→200T, Intel/MAX10 co‑FPGA), 100+ developer acrylic kits then an injection‑moulded case (€60–70k tooling), and a bespoke mechanical keyboard with double‑shot top and front legends. Video moves from a flaky HDMI chip to a pure‑FPGA HDMI implementation and is validated with an HDMI protocol analyzer. 25 developer units and larger runs ship; the hardware works — drives, VGA/HDMI, ethernet and keyboard all function.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Start
- 6:44First Iteration: Off-the-shelf FPGA board
- 10:07Second Iteration: Custom PCB, real C65 keyboard
- 12:43R2 PCB: Adding the missing parts
- 18:15HDMI Compatibility Dramas (Solved!)
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