You have just 10 days left to get your #ASIC design submitted to our TTSKY25b shuttle! There are still 70 early bird dev kits left, which mean you can do a full custom tapeout for just €185! Get started here: tinytapeout.com

Cambridge people: help save these bananas from the bin! Cambridge Fruit Company looking to give away 150kg of over-ripe nanas, address in alt. CFC does great work for the Red Hen Project too, all round great people so happy to advertise them. redhenproject.org www.cambridgefruitcompany.com/shop/

I designed a thing! It's a CPU module for a possible RISC-V hackable computer.

please enjoy: my Wasm-hosted, Wasm-targeting build of Clang/Clang++/LLD: a self-contained, 25 MiB (gzipped) pure function www.npmjs.com/package/@yow...

This idea for a RISC-V machine similar to RC2014 seemed like a good one so I've been thinking about it for the last few days. I've put together a rough plan for how it might be done - I'm interested in what people think! github.com/MichaelBell/...

Anyone got any experience - good or bad - with NextPCB?

Oooo!

It should not be legal to have a subscription service that you can set up online, but can only cancel over the phone.

Days since I have recompiled the Risc-V toolchain: 0

Grarkle. My laptop spontaneously powered off while playing Train Sim World earlier (Train Sim World 6 seems surprisingly good, think they've fixed some of the bugs since I last tried it). Since then, no boot. Windows repair didn't work. Have had to kick off a reset.

Landowners/homeowners along the “Bristol Avon” or tributary/waterway (like the K&A canal): If you’ve got any invasive species (Knotweed, Bamboo, Balsam, Rhododendron, Cherry Laurel, Giant Hogweed/Rhubarb) Let @protect.earth know and we’ll remove it for voluntary donations. protect.earth/contact

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand “Under specific microarchitectural conditions”

Thinking of getting one of these for on the go hacking. Any ideas how well installing Debian on it would go? www.lenovo.com/gb/en/p/lapt...

Spot the flaw in the plan...

We’re announcing the winners of the Tiny Tapeout RISC-V peripheral competition tomorrow!

I find this site mesmerizing. It is silent though - the winds outside are not. earth.nullschool.net#current/wind...

Announcing the RISC-V competition winners on a livestream, Wednesday 8th! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbEW... #RISCV #TinyTapeout

We got ‘em! Raspberry Pi 500+ keyboard connected to my MacBook 🤣

We just packed 237 of your projects into our most packed ASIC to date and submitted it for manufacture. Let’s take a look inside…

In other news, it fukken WORKS and I've successfully made a tiny stained glass window for my beetle's abdomen. 😍

It was awesome to be on @chrisgammell.bsky.social 's Amp Hour podcast again. Find out more about my latest endeavor to make custom silicon manufacturing accessible and follow @wafer.space and bookmark wafer.space to keep up to date!

Just received a rather tiny dev board. USB-C connector for scale.

I should get one of these for our boat, to replace the Cello TV that I’m using as a monitor there. Given it can run off a Pi’s USB port it must be significantly more power efficient too.

I got inspired at orconf, so now play.spade-lang.org supports a full in-browser flow for submitting to tinytapeout.com/ Still experimental, so if you try it and run into any issues, let me know :)

Are you a fan of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? Then you may enjoy this. I did.

How do we fix this mess?

And we had a great day doing DASH in London yesterday. It was a good set of puzzles! We somehow really struggled with the meta after completing all the other puzzles under the “par” time.

NEW What the Palestine Action proscription tells us about UK terrorism law On the difficulties of prohibiting and policing ‘expressions of opinion and belief’ By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Current hobby: writing tcl scripts in vim to place and wire up standard cells in magic Definitely keeping up with current software development trends me. Oh yes.

This story is something i've had in my head for a while. Because i'm fascinated by the myth of cats having multiple lives. That's always portrayed as a selfish thing. But what if it isn't just that? What if it started that way, but became the most precious of gifts?

ATTENTION BRITAIN! 🇬🇧 The UK now has a petition to STOP CENSORSHIP by MasterCard and VISA of legal products! This joins the Australian and Canadian petitions that are gaining momentum. Come on, let's get these signed! And spread the word! The UK petition: petition.parliament.uk/signatures/1...

I am quickly learning that the thought “I’ll just do something quickly in magic” is dangerous and can easily lead to the time suddenly becoming 1am… In related news my clock is now buffered nicely

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results: 1) Does UBI work? (yes) 2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

Being able to draw a structure, and then have it do maths, is so cool. My first foray into building logic at the lowest level - I've made a 16-bit counter. The green highlighted cell is my very own half adder, which is repeated 16 times going off the top of the image.

so Microsoft open-sourced their 6502 BASIC interpreter. i'm reading through the code looking for interesting things, and i've already found a few! 🧵 github.com/microsoft/BA...

It’s the last few days if you want to get involved in this competition! We have entries already from LED drivers and PWM audio to synths, VGA support and even an Intercal accelerator. But there’s still plenty of scope for new entries if you want to join in! The deadline is Friday night.

Totally normal development process:

If you have any questions for someone, ask! :) You will get an answer to your question faster and even save time 💙

Man, I know my outreach here is limited but I just got laid off at 2K after working on BioShock 4 for a year and a half. To say I'm gutted is a complete understatement. If anyone is in need of a friendly, fast and heavily driven animator with a lot of games experience please do let me know :)

www.reddit.com/r/transgende... Guess what? The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions. Want to know what really happened and how colleagues stood up for her? Read her own account here.

At #COSCUP25, @mattvenn.net shared what makes Tiny Tapeout successful, spotlighted some of the most creative projects, and revealed exciting updates (including our work with GlobalFoundries). www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVMj...

3 new features for my Video Timings Calculator: 1. 10K, 12K and 16K resolutions added. 2. HDMI 2.2 96/80/64 Gbps data rates added. 3. You can share timings by copy and pasting the URL. Thanks SnowSquire@github! Check it out here: tomverbeure.github.io/video_timing...

We have a new release of MicroPython! v1.62 dropped yesterday and has added I2CTarget (aka I2C Slave) and a whole plethora of improvements and refinements. github.com/micropython/...

Intel's 386 processor was popular in late 1980s microcomputers. From the outside, the 386 chip is a boring ceramic square. But I obtained a 3-dimensional CT X-ray scan from Lumafield, revealing six layers of complex wiring hidden inside the ceramic package. Let's take a closer look... 1/N

Holy crap. This is poetry. I have seen a sarcastic debunkening this melodious in quite some time.

i'm proud to have been involved in the creation of this new book from @nostarchpress.bsky.social, Designing Electronics That Work! it's full of useful material for anyone who wants to build anything electronic and bring it to mass production. nostarch.com/designingele...

A pin configurator and pinout diagram for the Raspberry Pi RP2350B and RP2350A chips: rp2350b.pinout.xyz rp2350a.pinout.xyz

Let’s be clear. The problem is the Online Safety Act. It’s not Labour, it’s not the Tories, it’s both of them. The act had cross party support. The act is the biggest piece of censorship in the U.K. since the Second World War.

Happy #BandcampFriday everyone! On Bandcamp Friday any download from @bandcamp.com will see 100% of the proceeds going to the artists … and this is the first one since Gigspanner Big Band signed up … so today is the perfect day to buy Turnstone or our other albums. gigspanner.bandcamp.com