BOM & Prices

At one point the prices when buying supplies got written down, indended to be updated when buying the next batch.

All prices are in Euros.

A Note About Getting 65C02s

When the project was started in mid 2023, 65C02 or 65SC02 were easy to obtain for ~2,50 Euro per chip when buying 10. However since end of 2024 these chips are getting harder to get. This results in two things: for one prices rise, but more importantly there are more fakes around. Two out of three tries to obtain reasonable priced refurbished 65C02s leads to discovering them being fakes. This is one of the reasons why the Sorbus is good at detecting the variant of the 6502 at hand.

The official price at Mouser is ~8.30/chip when buying 10 or more. So, if prices of refurbished and new old stock rise even more, it makes more sense to buy new chips. (WDC W65C02TPG-14 @ Mouser)

Sorbus Junior

Count Part Price Per Batch When Buying Supplier Used Comment
1 PCB 1.00 10 Elecrow
1 RP2040 Purple Board 16MB 2.50 10 AliExpress
1 65C02 or 65SC02 2.50 - 10.21 10 eBay, AliExpress Complicated
4 32 pin socket 1.00 50 eBay
7 3.3k pull up resistors only 3 required
1 capacitor optional
2 5 pin connector
1 jumper eBay

Sorbus Sound

Count Part Price Per Batch When Buying Supplier Used Comment
1 PCB 1.00 10 Elecrow
1 RP2040 Purple Board 16MB 2.50 10 AliExpress
1 32 pin connector, angled eBay 40 pin connector
1 PCM5102 I2S sound module 2.00 10 AliExpress
1 uSD socket 0.70 10 AliExpress
8 diode Mouser
1 3 pin connector
1 jumper eBay

Sorbus VGA

Count Part Price Per Batch When Buying Supplier Used Comment
1 PCB 1.00 10 Elecrow
1 RP2040 Purple Board 16MB 2.50 10 AliExpress
1 32 pin connector, angled 0.25 50 eBay 40 pin connector
1 VGA Socket 1.40 10 eBay
3 resistor 499 Mouser
3 resistor 1K Mouser
3 resistor 2K Mouser
3 resistor 4.02K Mouser
3 resistor 8.02K Mouser
2 resistor (sync) 47 Mouser
15 diode Mouser
2 3 pin connector
2 jumper eBay

Chipset / GPIO

Count Part Price Per Batch When Buying Supplier Used Comment
1 PCB 1.00 10 Elecrow
1 RP2040 Purple Board 16MB 2.50 10 AliExpress
1 28 pin connector, angled 0.25 50 eBay 40 pin connector
1 4 pin connector
2 5 pin connector
1 jumper eBay

32x32 LED Matrix

Count Part Price Per Batch When Buying Supplier Used Comment
4 16x16 WS2812 panel 28.00 4 AliExpress
1 PSU 5V 90W 21.50 1 Berrybase
1 woodwork done by father priceless Daddy

Note that these links are just an example. It is very likely that you can save more than 20% if you look for a similar item.