[IshKebab]

> The answer to why you would still want to build an FPGA system is (and always has been) speed.

> So I quickly gave up on creating something that could only exist on my FPGA board

I've been doing some FGPA stuff and I think that's the wrong way to look at it. Yes FPGAs are often useful when you need raw speed but that's not the only advantage over CPUs. You also get extremely low latency and direct control of IO pins. With software you are limited to the existing hardware peripherals, but with an FPGA you can make your own!

[horsawlarway]

I agree with you.

I had a brief stint in hardware design, and an FPGA is almost always going to be worse than dedicated hardware for a task, but it's extraordinarily flexible.

Most workflows I saw - you design the hardware on the FPGA (hugely useful for quickly testing and prototyping) then you outsource and actually build a custom chip if you really want speed.

It's also a great polyfill tool - since it can take the place of a lot of other hardware peripherals at a moment's notice.

[bandq]

Hey horsawlarway,

This is definitely the wrong way to ask but in another thread about the PineNote, you mentioned you have a flow to sync your RM2 to Bookstack -- are your scripts on github or any other place? If not, would you consider making them public or posting on Reddit /r/selfhosted/ and/or /r/RemarkableTablet/ ?

I'm new to HN (as a poster, long-time lurker) and I didn't find a way to directly send you a message.

[horsawlarway]

Unfortunately I have not made them public. I'd have to go and clean up a lot of places where I have hardcoded auth.

It's not going to be tomorrow (or probably any time in the next month or two) but I have been intending to do the cleanup at some point.

If I post them, I'll shoot you a link.