The newest ESP32 can run Linux and it's getting close to a Raspberry Pi

hwh 6 minutes ago|

The article seems to confuse the MCU and some sort of undisclosed SBC for the MCU. Well, it’s starting to do this in the headline.

mstaoru 1 hour ago||

Ah, the Lord Giveth and the Lord Taketh Away. P4 didn't have enough raw speed for camera applications but had MIPI CSI, S31 has enough raw speed but no CSI.

daemonologist 3 minutes ago|

My reaction precisely when I first heard the specs for this thing. Espressif works in mysterious ways.

poisonborz 48 minutes ago||

Sorry for the staple "duh AI article" but the product would be interesting, XDA-Devs is an established name, and then reading chapter titles like "Peripherals already change how it looks" is appaling. Like, ok, you pump up the text with AI, but at least proofread that sentences make sense? At least the titles?

rbanffy 1 hour ago||

With all the capabilities, video and audio output, it might be an excellent platform for software emulation of older devices. There is plenty of GPIO that can be driven by the 40 MHz core while the other two work on nobler things.

iamnothere 14 minutes ago|

It is a great platform for this, considering the cost. There have been several decent ESP based emulators already, including many consoles, a ZX Spectrum emulator, and even a 386 emulator.

https://github.com/foky26/Retro-Gamer

https://github.com/EremusOne/ESPectrum

https://github.com/hchunhui/tiny386

New chips should be even more capable. 486 won’t be out of reach for long.

One of the big problems has been handling peripheral emulation, multiple controllers, etc. The other cores might help with this.

sidewndr46 1 hour ago||

It looks like this latest version has an actual MMU of sorts, so that should make many things possible.

Rohansi 46 minutes ago|

By "of sorts" you mean a full RISC-V 32-bit MMU (Sv32).

Ledgermellow 25 minutes ago|

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