Mini Micro Fantasy Computer

Post by cdcarter » Wed, May 27, 2026, 5:53 PM UTC

Lerc wrote: post #45

K0balt wrote: post #27

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 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 no…

I 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 u…

Post by alexisread » Wed, May 27, 2026, 6:10 PM UTC

K0balt wrote: post #27

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 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 no…

Post by mmmlinux » Wed, May 27, 2026, 7:12 PM UTC

helsinkiandrew wrote: post #19

fivetomidnight wrote: post #7

Free but not Open Source? Did I miss that?

> Free but not Open Source? Did I miss that? The miniscript language itself is MIT License: https://github.com/JoeStrout/miniscript The Minimicro code doesn't seem to have any license in the repository or code: https://github.com/JoeStrout/minimicro-sysdisk

Post by debugnik » Wed, May 27, 2026, 7:25 PM UTC

tokai wrote: post #33

helsinkiandrew wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Free but not Open Source? Did I miss that? The miniscript language itself is MIT License: https://github.com/JoeStrout/miniscript The Minimicro code doesn't seem to have any license in the repository or code: https://github.com/JoeStrout/minimicro-sysdisk

So Open Source but not Free (Libre).

Post by utopiah » Wed, May 27, 2026, 7:49 PM UTC

d--b wrote: post #63

utopiah wrote: post #62

I don't get why this kind of projects need : - a manual - an installer when you have Web pages can now - be offline (PWA) - be responsive and run on pretty much any device - run pretty much anything thanks to WASM but anyway already have JS/HTML/CSS as bare minimum - can have the instructions AND the runtime on the same page, on any device, instantly - can connect with physical hardware, see recent https://hacks.mozi…

> Mini Micro is a neo-retro virtual computer. Learn to code, play some games, and join a friendly, enthusiastic community of hobbyists! Apparently not that friendly on HN :-D