Machine LabPortable C labs for machine-facing programming

Teach device-shaped systems work without making students fight a VM first.

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Device-shaped C

Ports, IRQs, RTC, timers, keyboard, mouse, framebuffers, audio buffers, and UART.

Student-first workflow

Generate a workspace, run make, run machinelab test, inspect deterministic artifacts.

Course-ready

Lab guides, instructor notes, rubrics, examples, release builds, and Cloudflare-hosted docs.

Machine Lab is public courseware for computer architecture, operating systems, and systems programming classes that want low-level ideas without requiring a full OS lab setup.

It keeps the useful part of older PC lab work:

bytes, masks, registers, and status bits;
interrupt-shaped event loops;
keyboard and mouse packet parsing;
framebuffers and PCM audio;
serial protocols and paired programs;
final projects that produce visible artifacts.

It removes the part that usually burns the first week:

fragile VM images;
service-management ceremony;
platform-specific display/audio setup;
undocumented grading paths.

Students

Use a generated workspace, follow the lab guides, and build a final C project.

Student guide

Instructors

Adopt the material in one week, choose labs, publish a rubric, and run project studio.

Instructor guide

Maintainers

Work on the runtime, SDK, lab templates, release artifacts, and docs site.

Developer guide

What You Can Send People

Lab track: start here.
One-week adoption: instructor adoption guide.
Project examples: examples.
Source and releases: GitHub.