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I’d love to see something like this but designed to run on esp32 or raspberry pi 2530. Either can handle basic HDMI and USB. Or a little <$100 laptop with a 7”
by K0balt 5mo ago
I’d love to see something like this but designed to run on esp32 or raspberry pi 2530. Either can handle basic HDMI and USB. Or a little <$100 laptop with a 7” display.
Easy to think raspberry pi, but with a full Linux you won’t get that intrinsic understanding that you fully control the hardware, you never control the “bare metal” unless you are a much more advanced user.
IMHO the feeling of not being in full control of your computing device is not a good starting point. I’m very fortunate to have started out on my 8kb BASIC machine.
- prmoustache 5mo agowhy not just use a vintage computer or game console then?
- Lerc 5mo agoThe main thing is video output. Even VGA is fading away now. HDMI is kind of what you need to be relevant to a lot of potenial users.
- LastTrain 5mo agoThe machines were simple but the technology constraints of the day also made them very inconvenient. Lots of wires, bulky & slow storage, limited connectivity.
- jan_Sate 5mo agoNot sure on the performance but it might be possible to port this Mini Micro to those platforms.
- Narishma 5mo agoDoubtful. Isn't Mini Micro build on Unity? That has much higher system requirements.
- Lerc 5mo agoI have been thinking along those lines myself. I have been playing around with a per scanline generated display on a rp2350 outputting to a tiny LCD. I think there's potential for some pretty fancy stuff on HDMI. A 2350 with PSRAM, HDMI connector plus a MicroSD for bulk filesytem, and USB for input could be quite a fun micro PC. I would be tempted to make somthing that had a second RP2350 with its own PSRAM sitting unutilized just as a temptation to users to figure out how to get more out of the gadget and learn about different multiprocessing architectures. One of these https://www.waveshare.com/core2350b.htm https://www.waveshare.com/core2350b.htm With one of these https://www.waveshare.com/rp2350-matrix.htm https://www.waveshare.com/rp2350-matrix.htm Mounted on top, and an HDMI connector squeezed in somewhere, I am a bit reminded of what GeoWorks Ensemble managed on a 640k 8086. Theoretically you could make a tiny system like this do even more.
- mysterydip 5mo ago> I am a bit reminded of what GeoWorks Ensemble managed on a 640k 8086. I was looking at similar recently for a project, and came across FrankOS: https://github.com/rh1tech/frank-os https://github.com/rh1tech/frank-os
- cdcarter 5mo agoCheck out the Adafruit Fruit Jam, its got pretty much everything you need.
- AstroJetson 5mo agoI really like the Fruit Jam. I was also excited about Frank's OS, I'm looking to see how hard it would be to port over.
- pjmlp 5mo agoYes, they are more powerful than classical MS-DOS PCs, so there is plenty of juice in them.
- poyu 5mo agoThere's PicoMite: https://geoffg.net/picomite.html https://geoffg.net/picomite.html It's a BASIC interpreter/OS for the RP2040
- UncleSlacky 5mo agoYou could just use RISC OS on the PI for BBC Basic.
- Tepix 5mo agoThere‘s LEDmeplay https://mithotronic.de/ledmeplay.php https://mithotronic.de/ledmeplay.php
- alexisread 5mo agoThere’s a wealth of retro machines out there that cater to this. A sample: https://www.olimex.com/Products/Retro-Computers/Neo6502/open-source-hardware https://www.olimex.com/Products/Retro-Computers/Neo6502/open... https://www.olimex.com/Products/Retro-Computers/AgonLight2/open-source-hardware https://www.olimex.com/Products/Retro-Computers/AgonLight2/o... Or with keyboards: https://wildbitscomputing.com/ https://wildbitscomputing.com/ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spectrumnext/zx-spectrum-next-issue-3-0 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spectrumnext/zx-spectru... Or you can go mobile: https://www.clockworkpi.com/product-page/picocalc https://www.clockworkpi.com/product-page/picocalc https://andywarburton.co.uk/post/gr3ml1n-a-compact-handheld-cyberdeck-built-for-chaos https://andywarburton.co.uk/post/gr3ml1n-a-compact-handheld-... And if you want a real challenge, the one euro computer: https://www.olimex.com/Products/Retro-Computers/RVPC/open-source-hardware https://www.olimex.com/Products/Retro-Computers/RVPC/open-so...
- K0balt 5mo agoSomething like the one dollar riscV but with an ESP32, hdmi, and an sd card slot. Pretty sure this exists somewhere. But it needs a good OS with a built in dev environment to be successful. I think I looked into if pico8 or something could work on the esp32, but it was too heavy iirc.
- joshu 5mo agoi haven’t seen hdmi on esp32. any example projects?