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by tarxvf 879 days ago
More than that, too. I bet you could guess my age within 2 years with solely a list of technology I've used. I don't think it would even have to be sorted by date.
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Go ahead, leave "Hypercard" on your resume. Wear it as a badge of honor.
Yah, when your answer for "most interesting project" involves an MCU with 63 bytes of RAM...
That could be very well today.

Here is an example of an MCU with 48 bytes of SRAM that is relevant in 2024 because it costs less than 2 cents: https://www.lcsc.com/product-detail/span-style-background-co...

Could I use a $0.02 microcontroller unit that has 48 bytes of RAM to function as the computer for a homemade networked camera package? Like, attaching the MCU to a one dollar WiFi module to begin building an amateur information technology system with a Raspberry Pi single board computer performing as the mainframe server?
The $1 WiFi module probably has a better microcontroller built in... And thus the popularity of the ESP8266...
I just learned about the ESP8266 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESP8266). Thanks.

So, there's already entire systems on chips? Like the Raspberry Pis and ESP32s?

Are they robust and general purpose though? Can they be integrated into any little home project? Or would you have to design and make your own microchips for your own cases?

If you're familiar with the ESP32, the ESP8266 is similar, but less capable and less expensive. As far as I know, the ESP8266 was designed and sold as a wifi add-on chip for a separate microcontroller, but then an SDK came out and some applications don't actually need a separate microcontroller.

Depends on your project if it will work, but I use them around the house to report on temperature and humidity, and I've got one setup on an arcade video converter that I was hoping I could get better output from (but it didn't really work).

>I bet you could guess my age within 2 years with solely a list of technology I've used

You could always not list "Expert on Symbolics machines, Smalltalk, Algol 68" and keep the newer/evergreen stuff.