When ARDUINO is made in the USSR, you get THIS

Today, we will take a look at this legendary device: an educational microprocessor lab created at the VEF factory in Latvia in 1988. It served as a tool for studying the architecture and operations of the Soviet clone of the Intel 8080 processor, the KR580VM80A. In a certain sense, it shared similarities with the famous MITS Altair computer. When equipped with expansion cards, it has extensive capabilities for building microprocessor-driven devices — somewhat like the modern Arduino. What you will find in this episode: 00:00 – Introduction 01:20 – An episode about SKALA is coming! 01:44 – KR580VM80A processor 02:11 – Controls, buttons, and LEDs 04:30 – What is inside? 08:36 – Restoration 10:00 – Entering the test program 11:07 – Test run of the Hello World program 12:06 – Outro and future plans Support our work: Join us on Patreon: Or, buy Us a Coffee: