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Sometimes there doesn't need to be a "market", just an interest and passion. I think there's value in an open and modernized 8-bit MCU/MPU that isn't PIC or wh
by cmrdporcupine 2y ago
Sometimes there doesn't need to be a "market", just an interest and passion.
I think there's value in an open and modernized 8-bit MCU/MPU that isn't PIC or whatever.
- PaulHoule 2y agoI love AVR-8 myself.
- garaetjjte 2y agoIt's really terrible that for cheap embedded cores things like 8051 are still being used, instead of sane architectures like AVR.
- PaulHoule 2y agoI find it pretty scary that C compilers target the 8051 but I also think C is a terrible waste of the AVR-8 (who needs to move the stack pointer around meaninglessly in a simple program where recursion is a problem and not a solution? Probably the best thing that happened in the 1970s was that Microsoft BASIC beat Lisp and Logo, otherwise a generation of people learning to code would have been victimized even more by bad Fibonacci implementations) which I only indulge in because I can port C code to a bigger microcontroller.
- cmrdporcupine 2y agoHave you ever played with the Parallax Propeller MCUs? (I and II). 32-bit, but very "retro" feel to them. And an odd and interesting multicore architecture. Unfortunately they've had a bad streak in terms of getting a proper GCC or Clang toolchain targeted towards them. The developers of the chip are focused on their own weird structured BASIC-Assembly fusion ("SPIN").