Sounds interesting. Did you publish the source code? I have no idea how something like this would be built, especially in a way that it allows checking on telemetry; would be interesting to look at it.
Cool to see my project-in-progress here. Happy to answer questions.
there's still a lot to do until I'm ready to produce hardware, but a lot already works. The plan is to update the article as I go along, and eventually open source everything once I'm convinced it works at least well enough to be used.
Not really (but the code is on bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/lutorm/arduino). I've been meaning to post some pictures and stuff, but I haven't gotten around to it yet.
I would love to see some screenshots added to the README.
I get that it compiles a Verilog design into a Factorio Blueprint, but what does the resulting factory look like? Is it just a bunch of wires and combinators?
Would love to check it out. I'm currently using a Teensy Arduino to offload as much as I can. I have a huge space constraint, so the smaller the PCB the better :)
This looks like awesome work. Will be studying the source to learn about how it works. Serious code envy for people who take the time and effort to build OS'es like this.
Could see this having potential on SBCs and usage in IOT/PLC applications.
There's a picture in the repo it looks like he is using a logic analyzer. He also mentions the backplane is wire wrapped, making it easy to connect wires.
I want to build one myself as well, but I don't want to use existing code as a guide, rather challenge myself to implement from raw specs.
The problem is I haven't really found any yet that helped me (admittedly, I have so far devoted just one Saturday morning to it.) Are there any specs about the hardware that you used, or that anyone else can share?
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