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Leave it to HN to poop on even the coolest of projects. "What? This tiny DIY rocket that can go all the way to Mars on a liter of hydrogen didn't use a space e
by ythn 9y ago
Leave it to HN to poop on even the coolest of projects.
"What? This tiny DIY rocket that can go all the way to Mars on a liter of hydrogen didn't use a space elevator? Disappointing."
- Chaebixi 9y ago> the coolest of projects. But running an emulator on an off-the-shelf ARM microcontroller and putting it in a retro 3D printed case isn't really that cool. Not to say it isn't cool, but don't get carried away.
- tyingq 9y agoThe esp32 has a dual core Tensilica Xtensa LX6 microprocessor. It's not ARM, and he did split functionality across the cores. I agree it's not rocket science, but it doesn't appear to have been a straightforward task either.
- khedoros1 9y agoHow about writing the emulator and interfacing the (non-ARM) chip with an inconvenient video interface? He used someone else's m68k emulator, but wrote the emulation for the rest of the hardware as custom code.
- jankotek 9y agoI come her to learn something. If "hacking" is something I can do myself over weekend, I do not learn anything. And some HN folks are familiar with Mac hardware. For example PSU was little piece of art. This is really, really disappointing.
- khedoros1 9y agoYou can write a Mac emulator to run on an ESP32, outputting scaled video on a MIPI DSI screen over a weekend? That's really damn impressive.