fitzsim

8 ms·

1. 1.▲
   by fitzsim 4y ago

   Nice, I'd like to follow this. I tried browsing there with EWW, but I'm blocked by an "Enable JavaScript" message. This seems to be a Mastodon 4.x thing; 3.5.x servers work great in EWW (read-only at least). I'm
2. 2.▲
   by fitzsim 5y ago

   The Talos II is blob-free. At launch, proprietary binary-only firmware was required for the network interface, but Raptor Computing Systems offered a bounty to reverse engineer and do a Free Software re-implementation of the firmware, and
3. 3.▲
   by fitzsim 5y ago

   Typing on the keyboard is surprisingly fun. For larger programs you can interact with the Lisp Badge via a serial console. Here's a setup for using Emacs's built-in serial support. This makes programming the Lisp Badge very simi
4. 4.▲
   by fitzsim 5y ago

   Sort of meta, but why does plopdown.video require JavaScript? Without JavaScript enabled it renders as a blank page. The actual post is just text and images. Why put that behind a JavaScript wall? Doing so excludes all non-JavaScript-su
5. 5.▲
   by fitzsim 6y ago

   I recently built three of these. There's no kit, so to build one you have acquire all the parts and learn TQFP soldering. The result is a really neat little computer. I did a write-up on my blog: https://www.fitzsim.org&#