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I have this running on a Fubarino. It's nice to fiddle with but not quite useful to be serious. I have an ethernet module that at some point I need to hook up t

by iuguy 8y ago

I have this running on a Fubarino. It's nice to fiddle with but not quite useful to be serious. I have an ethernet module that at some point I need to hook up to it. What I really want is a DIP version of the PIC32 with enough RAM and flash to run this or the 4.4-based LiteBSD[1] by the same people. [1] - https://github.com/sergev/LiteBSD https://github.com/sergev/LiteBSD

grogenaut 8y ago
Why dip?
- jacobush 8y ago
  Easy to solder?
  - Koshkin 8y ago
    http://geoffg.net/SurfaceMount.html http://geoffg.net/SurfaceMount.html
  - iuguy 8y ago
    Exactly. I build projects in my spare time to teach people how to solder. SOIC or QFN is just about doable for beginners, but having a full Unix computer that anyone can build in an afternoon would be pretty cool.
cat199 8y ago
Agreed, If I could get 4M(16bit) or 16M/32M/64M and a tty going, and some tiny ssh implementation+ethernet that would be amazing.
squarefoot 8y ago
I wonder why there's no port for the ESP32 boards family. Plenty of RAM/Flash (compared to PIC32), lots of I/O ports and peripherals and built in WiFi/BT. It just seems to me the perfect target, or am I missing something? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESP32 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESP32
- VectorLock 8y ago
  I think its because the PIC32 uses the MIPS 4k CPU architecture which a compiler that can build this RetroBSD exists for. I'm not sure what kind of CPU architecture the ESP32 uses-- I think its some proprietary DSP core.
  - shakna 8y ago
    Xtensa. For most compilers: xtensa-esp32-elf will work, so long as the ESP-IDF toolchain is available.