SmartyKit

Educational computer kit for self-creation of a computer for children from 6 to 16 years old

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak have created a computer that you and your child can create together in 10 hours

The SmartyKit box contains all the necessary parts to build your own version of the first computer created by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs just like LEGO, putting together integrated circuits, modules, high-quality BusBoard breadboards, jumper wires, electronic components, and cables.

Get a Kit

$209

$299

What is inside the SmartyKit box?

custom display frame and standoffs

5 high-quality BusBoard830 breadboards

2.8" TFT display

FTDI cable for drivers update and playing with pixel art

foam layer with custom modules to help you connect all the chips

batteries holder with power-on switch

connectors between CPU and Memory (data bus and address bus), video connector

foam layer with 14 chips with genuine WDC 6502 8-bit CPU used in the original Woz's computer

passive components

custom-cut wires with unified lengths – S, M, and L

video cable to connect to a TV or monitor

chips sticker pack

Develops logical and mathematical thinking

STEM educators: Let your students be the future Wozniaks and Jobs

The child will be proud of himself for having created his first computer

What will the child get?

You need it if:

Do you want your child to touch the history of the creation of the first Apple computer as Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak did

You want to find more efficient, affordable and fun way to engage kids in STEM than robotics or coding clubs

The child likes computers and you are looking for a gift

For those who want to spend more time with their child and work with chips, wires, components and 8-bit software

How it works

Leave a request on the website

Choose the customization of the product for your child

Together with the child, you unpack the box

You put together a computer with your child, as Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak did in their garage

Use cases

Empire State SmartyKit

Twins start 8-bit single-board computer. Want to play like them?

The first step while building your own computer is Terminal: keyboard controller send chars to video controller and we see them on Display

Assembly has 201 steps that are organised in 7 milestones – Power, Quickstart, Terminal, 6502 CPU, Memory, In/Out ports and TV out.

Steve Wozniak’s portrait as ASCII art on the first Apple computers – Apple-1 and SmartyKit single board, Apple-1 compatible computer

Fallow us to learn how to build it . This is redesigned version of the first computer of Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs

Do you know how complex modern iPhones are? Take a look at their brains, processors, to compare it with the first Apple compute

Comparing original Apple-1 motherboard with SmartyKit redesigned single-board version: processor (CPU), RAM and ROM

SmartyKit talk with Bill Mensch in New York on Back to the future of computing.