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Re:What? More 8-Bit Microcontrollers? by ChuckNorris89 on Friday July 01, 2022 @05:35AM (#31944193)
>Just because something is tried-and-true doesn't mean it can't be improved on or be re-built for practice.

And that's why HN should also consider to look outside of the fast moving tinkerer bubble and realize that if you're trying to sell some white goods profitably there's a reason why the old and tested is used and not the latest shiny.

Hardware development is completely different than web development.

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Re:What? More 8-Bit Microcontrollers? by speed_spread on Friday July 01, 2022 @08:39AM (#31945574)
You made me imagine an npm-like world for FPGA development of custom CPU from thousands of amateur packages. It was both funny anf horrible. Thanks?
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Re:What? More 8-Bit Microcontrollers? by scoutt on Friday July 01, 2022 @08:45AM (#31945630)
Like this?

https://opencores.org/projects

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Re:What? More 8-Bit Microcontrollers? by speed_spread on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @05:52PM (#32007278)
No, that's actually super cool! When I think of an npm project, I think of an evergrowing dependency tree covering trivial stuff such as leftpad.
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