MOnSter 6502 and Digi-Comp II at Vintage Computer Festival PNW

By Lenore Edman on January 21, 2018

We’re bringing the MOnSter 6502 and the Digi-Comp II to the Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest February 10-11 at the Living Computers: Museum+Labs in Seattle, Washington. Living Computers: Museum+Labs is an incredible museum! Bring your camera, bring your children, and enjoy all that LC:ML and VCF have to offer. Check out the exhibitor list and … Continue reading MOnSter 6502 and Digi-Comp II at Vintage Computer Festival PNW →

MOnSter 6502 at Maker Faire NY

By Lenore Edman on September 3, 2017

We’re excited to be bringing the MOnSter 6502 out to Maker Faire New York for its east coast debut. Maker Faire is September 23 and 24 at the New York Hall of Science. See how microcontrollers and computers work at the most basic level! We built a functional transistor-scale model of the famous 6502 microprocessor. … Continue reading MOnSter 6502 at Maker Faire NY →

MOnSter 6502 at Vintage Computer Festival West

By Lenore Edman on July 31, 2017

We’re bringing the MOnSter 6502 to the Vintage Computer Festival this weekend, August 5-6 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. VCF West is for everyone! Computer geeks, families/children, students, collectors, IT professionals, curious onlookers…

MOnSter 6502 update

By Lenore Edman on June 16, 2017

The new version of the #MOnSter6502 is up and running! pic.twitter.com/Mlz3Tidje2 — Evil Mad Scientist (@EMSL) June 16, 2017 The second revision of the MOnSter 6502 is here, working, and blinkier than ever with nearly twice as many LEDs!

MOnSter 6502 Video

By Lenore Edman on May 15, 2017

We’ve been working on the MOnSter 6502 project for quite some time. We first introduced it last year, and since then we have brought it up to the stage of successfully running programs in assembly, BASIC, and Forth. We have taken this opportunity before Maker Faire to put together an introductory video for the project.

MOnSter 6502 at Bay Area Maker Faire 2017

By Lenore Edman on May 9, 2017

We’ll be at this year’s Bay Area Maker Faire, May 19-21 with Tube Time and the MOnSter 6502 project. We’ll hope to see you there!

Introducing the MOnSter 6502

By Windell Oskay on May 15, 2016

Our collaborator Eric Schlaepfer has been extremely hard at work this year, designing a truly monstrous follow up to our giant-scale dis-integrated 555 and 741 circuits. This is the MOnSter 6502: a transistor-scale replica of the famous MOS 6502 microprocessor, the processor found at the heart of influential early computer systems such as the Apple … Continue reading Introducing the MOnSter 6502 →

MOnSter in a box

By Windell Oskay on July 30, 2019

For the past couple of years we have been working towards a public launch of the MOnSter 6502, our working transistor-scale replica of the famous MOS 6502 microprocessor. One of the biggest pieces of the puzzle has been how to present it in such a way that shows off its beauty but also lets you … Continue reading MOnSter in a box →

The 555SE and 741SE surface-mount soldering kits

By Windell Oskay on November 21, 2019

Today we are pleased to announce the release of two new soldering kits: the 555SE discrete 555 timer and the 741SE discrete op-amp. Both of these new kits are surface mount soldering kits — our first surface mount soldering kits — and we think that you’re going to love them. You might be familiar with … Continue reading The 555SE and 741SE surface-mount soldering kits →

Looking back at Maker Faire

By Lenore Edman on June 8, 2019

It has been reported that Maker Media is shutting down and that Maker Faire is at its end. Evil Mad Scientist has its roots in Maker Faire, and has been presenting there from the very beginning, so it seems fitting to look back at our Maker Faire projects now. For the very first event in … Continue reading Looking back at Maker Faire →