Permacomputing 101 - Hundred Rabbits @ Critical Signals 2025:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNYxAdjl1f0 (YouTube)
welcome newcomers to the federation of posting. i can assure you that instead of a small number of big time insane mods and admins we have in fact a large number of much smaller insane mods and admins
Proof that people have been making stupid amounts of money to just make stuff up.
But if you question any of it you're a danger to democracy.
Link
Remember the old days?
Why aren't today's routers made out of wood?
2G Gone? Bring It Back Yourself!
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/06/2g-gone-bring-it-back-yourself/
New video! I'm showing two (and a half) ways of getting the TL866 EPROM programmer to work in Linux.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/_oacXhtaLsk
PeerTube: https://makertube.net/w/kKdacAjugvbd6cDGyUSZew
#TL866 #EPROM #EPROMProgrammer #XGecu #MiniPro #Linux #LinuxMint #Wine #VirtualBox #Tutorial #HowTo #EPROMBurner
I picked up a TI-83 calculator at a yard sale for $5. This is just a portable retro computer. It's got a #Z80 running at 6 MHz which you can program directly, or with #BASIC. 32K of RAM.
I'm pretty sure the calculator I used in high school was a TI-82, so this is a tiny bit of an upgrade of that, being that it directly supports programs written in ASM, transferred via USB from a computer. Can't wait to make some graphs and play Tetris on this thing, once I find some AAA batteries.
#RetroDev #TI
get it on flatpak. download the snap. install it on the appstream-compatible application store. your distro's appstream-compatible application store has it for you
@xChaos As it happens, @permacomputer @vidak _has_ been thinking along these lines: https://basiclang.solarpunk.au/d/5-minimal-text-editor-inside-the-lua-repl/13
@akkartik I am myself all for #solarpunk (see hashtag #solarbike on my instance...) but I am not sure how wise would be to start thinking in Basic again. Well, I spent way too many days of my teenage years programming in Basic... but I somehow don't feel like it was worth it.
I admit that interpreter that fits to 4 to 8 KB is amazing result. ZX Spectrum Basic was 16 KB. Basic interpreter for my Sharp MZ-800, which had to be loaded from cassette tape, unfortunately, was quite good, but it was around 40 KB big.
4 KB is really good. But the entire idea of line numbering is... well... it is not really comfortable way of thinking. Or editing. On the other hand, simple, non bloated software would be useful. For certain tasks, single task environment is more than enough. And of course, the shorter code can be much easier to understand and debug, than long code.
Some time ago, I was amazed by Tiny C compiler for POSIX systems (it was able to compile itself, of course). Having something like Tiny C for Z-80 would be nice. I really missed being to use C on Z-80. Of course, Z-80 systems are often missing filesystems at all... C without file I/O is kinda crippled, but still much more powerful than Basic.
The, well, basic idea of Basic, that integers (sometimes even floats) and strings must be enough for everybody, is more or less true: yes, lot of useful stuff can be done with integers and strings. But I would still prefer to use something like subset of Python syntax... which reminds me, that my current thought experiment (not really started as project yet) is subset of Python transpiler to C (should be able to compile itself too). I consider it kind of solarpunk too, although it is not using 70s technology, but should be pretty useful running of 80s highend or 90s mainstream.
Thank you interwebs, I knew that the new iPhone form factor reminded me of something.
Perhaps with the right compile optimisations, the Arduino Mega might indeed work for a permacomputer platform...
Because this text editor comes in at under 5KB...