In some ways, Minecraft is becoming the new Doom, used as a springboard for outlandish projects. Minecraft is now a leading light in inspiring hardware and software hackers to push the boundaries of the computing world. For example, in recent months, we’ve seen a 5-million-parameter ChatGPT AI model in Minecraft , as well as Minecraft running entirely in 8MB of VRAM on an old GPU, and another Minecraft server implemented using 63-year-old COBOL code .
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pug_s This lightbulb is kind of more powerfull than the original NES, so why not? Reply
Roland Of Gilead I do admit, I like these hack articles. Some ingenious thinking. Reply
hotaru251 this microcontroller is near 2x faster than the one yrs ago that a guy got Doom to run on. https://www.slashgear.com/ikea-tradfri-smart-lamp-can-sort-of-run-doom-14678171/ I love seeing popular games pushed to run on such limited tech Reply
Moxylite destabilized my brain for the rest of the day, but this device is quite the rabbit hole 😛 1 Introduction to BL602 2 NuttX on BL602 3 Projects and Libraries on BL602 4 Flashing Firmware to BL602 5 GPIO on BL602 6 SPI on BL602 7 I2C on BL602 8 UART on BL602 9 ADC on BL602 10 DMA on BL602 11 PWM on BL602 12 WiFi on BL602 13 Graphics on BL602 14 Multitasking BL602 15 LoRa on BL602 16 Zig on BL602 17 Rust on BL602 18 BASIC on BL602 19 Lisp on BL602 20 Visual Programming on BL602 21 Machine Learning on BL602 22 Troubleshooting BL602 23 Bootloader for BL602 24 OpenOCD on BL602 25 GDB and VSCode on BL602 26 PineDio Stack BL604 27 BL706 Audio Video Board 28 Mynewt on BL602 29 What’s Next 30 About the Author Reply
Heat_Fan89 Roland Of Gilead said: I do admit, I like these hack articles. Some ingenious thinking. I was going to say that until I saw your comment. I like the new direction of Toms. Reply
DrFrankensteinMBChBMScFFP Whenever I see an article like this my reaction is that this guy is ingenious but needs to get out more. Reply
hotaru251 Fruitmaniac said: But can it run Doom? yes as someone did it yrs ago on a microprocessor that was half as performant. Reply
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