Atari is back! That’s what some dude says. There are no real details in that post, other than ‘Atari is Back!’
The ESP32 is coming, and it’s going to be awesome. Espressif has just released an Arduino core for the ESP32 WiFi chip. The digitalRead, digitalWrite, SPI, Serial, Wire, and WiFi “should” work. If you’re looking for ESP32 hardware, they’re infrequently available and frequently out of stock. Thankfully, stock levels won’t be the Raspberry Pi Zero all over again until someone figures out how to run an NES emulator on the ESP32.
Tiny, cheap ARM boards would make for great home servers if they had SATA or multiple network interfaces. Here’s a Kickstarter for a board with both. It’s based on an ARM A53 with multiple Ethernets, mini PCIe, enough RAM, and SATA. It’s a board for niche use cases, but those uses could be really cool.
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Some dude with a camera in the woods did something. Primitive Technology, the best example of experimental archaeology you’ve ever seen, built a spear thrower. You can throw a ball faster with a lacrosse stick than you can with just your hands, and this is the idea behind this device, commonly referred to as an atlatl. You can hunt with an atlatl in some states, but I have yet to see a video of anyone taking down a deer with one of these.
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Brian, how about an elk? Robb Wolf killed an elk with an atlatl on the discovery show “I, caveman”. It might be in episode 2 if you want to find it.
Don’t get me started about Elk country, man.
So now we are contaminating the beautiful ESP modules with the worst API ever designed?
No, no, no, they’re not getting Windows, only Arduino. :-p
You are right. My mistake. Let’s then call it the second worst API ever designed. Or may be better: the worst microcontroller API ever designed.
Atlatl maybe has more spring. Would this be more like a Woomera
It is a throwing stick, they’ve been used by cultures all over the world since, well shortly after the point stick was invented. The name doesn’t really matter.
He is in Australia and he mentions in the description it is a Woomera. That’s what they are called over here.
Primitive Technology’s videos all seem to involve some sort of hack, usually hacking down a tree or part of it. You could do some serious hacking with those axes he makes.
The videos involve the absolutely wonderful absence of bad music tracks and poorly-conceived narration that clot up nearly every other “how to” video.
Less is more, I’d not mess with his format in any way.
I laud Espressif for embracing the maker-community with both hands. From what I hear, the popularity of ESP8266 caught them totally off-guard, as they had never intended for it to be used by makers in the first place. Releasing an officially-supported Arduino-core is going to make the ESP32 that much more appealing to people of all skill-levels and makes it that much easier to recommend to newcomers to MCUs. The hardware has great specs, but good software-support is one of those things that tend to make or break things, even with mediocre hardware.
Embracing with both hands, makes me think…
https://www.colourbox.com/preview/1550878-laurent-hamels-altopress-maxppp-hands-strangling-woman-close-up-b-w.jpg
Rather than with say, both arms.
Forget the Atari thing, WuTang clan remix of the doubtfully tuneful tunez… Shkreli will probably buy it and put it in the ET landfill, just to watch the nerdrage… though possibly performing his one and only act of public service ever.
Atari seems to be making a comeback every six months or so.
Marvell ESPRESSOBin Board Only has a single SATA so it is not really ideal for a “home” server if your are talking about a NAS. You can use a SATA multiplexer but that is not an ideal solution. It sounds like a good choice for home router. I would love to see an ARM board with PCI slots.
Just use an arduino to bit bang it…
…. might need to overclock it in liquid nitrogen.
Wut! Are you mad? The LEDs will change colour at those temperatures and ruin your decor.
Just use it as an AoE node and RAID more than one of them, that is where the multiple NICs come in handy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATA_over_Ethernet
Or Ceph which is what I’d use one for. Unfortunately while they say 2GB RAM there aren’t any available like that, nor with the eMMC populated. That and delivery to the UK is $30 (who are they using?!) so at £63.70 for one with 1GB RAM it’s kinda hard to justify vs a HP Microserver at £125 for one.
Well since most primitive people’s went around bare ass naked so I would like to think Primitive Technology guy for wearing shorts.
“Thankfully, stock levels won’t be the Raspberry Pi Zero all over again until someone figures out how to run an NES emulator on the ESP32”
Posted the next day: http://hackaday.com/2016/10/10/porting-nes-to-the-esp32/