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by revx 343 days ago
Anyone know the current record-holder for world's smallest web server? :)
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femto 343 days ago
Probably just a matter of loading the necessary software onto this MCU:

https://www.ti.com/about-ti/newsroom/news-releases/2025/2025...

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kingstnap 343 days ago
According to the specs, it has 1kB of ram. You're going to need to be quite clever to implement a working TCP-IP stack and an HTTP server in that.

An RSA key is 4kB by itself, so TLS is out of the picture.

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em3rgent0rdr 343 days ago
I was also going to suggest that... But I imagine that the Ethernet port or antennae wire (and necessary battery to power antennae) would dwarf the size of that MCU. But thinking again, I suppose if the rules permit the MCU to be directly wired to the Ethernet cable, then could bitbang an early Ethernet standard with this MCU's pins...
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st_goliath 343 days ago
If you're going to use an Ethernet jack anyway, you might as well use one that has an ARM SoC already built in and runs Linux:

https://www.digikey.at/en/product-highlight/d/digi-intl/digi...

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jagged-chisel 343 days ago
“Obsolete and no longer manufactured.” :-(
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femto 343 days ago
I'd do a serial connection using the UART. Serial is a perfectly valid transport.
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aa-jv 343 days ago
I have a web server (not public) that runs on my M5Stack device ..

https://m5stack.com

And my magicShifter also serves web pages to anyone in my environment ..

https://magicshifter.net/

But I guess the standard is 'on the public web', akin to most publicly accessible web surfers .. for that, I'd be a bit uncomfortable exposing my m5stack/magicshifter to the web, for the time being ..

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