Ccircuitrocks·Oct 31Sylphide OS Turns Cheap Microcontrollers Into Retro Desktop PCsSylphide OS Turns Cheap: Sylphide OS gives ESP32-P4 and Pico 2 boards a windowed desktop with a mouse, built on FreeRTOS.2 min read·circuitrocks.hashnode.dev
Ccircuitrocks·Oct 30Weekend Build: An Intel 8048 Conference Badge from 1976Weekend Intel 8048 Conference: An Intel 8048 from 1976, an EEPROM and two vintage LED displays make a conference badge you can wire up in a weekend.2 min read·circuitrocks.hashnode.dev
Ccircuitrocks·Oct 28Run an Apple II on Raspberry Pi with the LinApple EmulatorRun Apple II Raspberry: Turn a Raspberry Pi into a 1977 Apple II. Build the LinApple emulator, add Mockingboard sound, and write BASIC the way early game…2 min read·circuitrocks.hashnode.dev
Ccircuitrocks·Oct 23Weekend Build: An Apollo Guidance Computer DSKY on Raspberry PiWeekend Apollo Guidance Computer: An avionics engineer runs the Apollo 13 software on a Raspberry Pi inside a 1:1 DSKY replica.2 min read·circuitrocks.hashnode.dev
Ccircuitrocks·Sep 2630 ATtiny412 Chips Recreate a 1928 Bicycle-Chain Number SieveMaker KB Sriram rebuilt a 1928 mechanical number sieve using 30 ATtiny412 chips and an RP2040, and the century-old math still checks out perfectly.3 min read·circuitrocks.hashnode.dev
Ccircuitrocks·Aug 31This ESP32 CHIP-8 Computer Runs on a Flame and a Stirling EngineESP32 CHIP-8 Computer Runs: No battery, no wall wart. A Stirling engine and a candle push enough current to run an ESP32 CHIP-8 machine with an OLED and a…3 min read·circuitrocks.hashnode.dev
SScott Boudreaux·Aug 12N64 LLM: a Large Language Model Running on a Nintendo 64Legend of Elya runs a real 819K-parameter transformer language model natively on a Nintendo 64 (VR4300, MIPS III) confirmed on real hardware via EverDrive 64. G3 min read·elyanlabs.hashnode.dev
SScott Boudreaux·Aug 11SNES LLM: a Language Model Running on a Super NintendoA transformer language model runs on Super Nintendo hardware at 7 to 8 tokens per second. The SNES has a free signed hardware multiply and ternary weights were3 min read·elyanlabs.hashnode.dev
SScott Boudreaux·Aug 10Transformers on Four Retro ConsolesWe ran transformer language models on a Game Boy Color, Sega Genesis, Nintendo 64 and NES, and counted every cycle. 10.09x measured with byte-identical output,18 min read·elyanlabs.hashnode.dev
SScott Boudreaux·Aug 9Sega Genesis LLM: a Language Model Running on a Motorola 68000A transformer language model runs on a real Sega Genesis. Confirmed on a 1988 Model 1 with video: the console counts its own vblanks to report the token rate. M3 min read·elyanlabs.hashnode.dev
