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Smallest Computer Ever by NoVIcE

NoVIcE
NoVIcE
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1st Aug 2017
4th Sep 2024
This *was* the smallest in august 2017, 65*98px. Smaller cpus exist now. You can call it, half-subframe due the fact that it uses some tricks like particle order to make it small, its not operating on 60hz though (with def. fps cap). More in forum thread
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Comments

  • TheNik
    TheNik     3rd Aug 2017
    This is very impressive! If you could come up with the hardware and code to connect two, three, four of those to a central coordinating computer, you'd have created the first crwod computing platform on TPT. :P Jokes aside, this is of the perfect size and form factor to use in TPT "embedded systems" - i.e. a supplementary, programmable chip for saves that focus on a different thing.
  • The8BitPotato
    The8BitPotato     3rd Aug 2017
    IT'S NOT A TUMOR
  • AveryAveryAvery
    AveryAveryAvery     3rd Aug 2017
    do !set type insl dmnd for cancer
  • LBPHacker
    LBPHacker     3rd Aug 2017
    Oh my. Summer summer seems to not be ending just yet. I'll look into this when I have the time. I can already tell that you offloaded quite a lot of work to the screen :P Ahw that glorious FILT ROM screen.
  • Schmolendevice
    Schmolendevice     3rd Aug 2017
    @equinox_YOLO The most basic criteria would be the ability to run/execute a program and be programmed to run ANY program. A flashlight clearly isn't a computer. Neither is a radio. If you can give a circuit a "grocery list" or command it with the steps to build ANY Lego set within the limits of its hardware, it is a computer. A computer is anything that we can feed instructions which it will perform sequentially.
  • equinox_YOLO
    equinox_YOLO     3rd Aug 2017
    What classifie any piece of electronic a computer? What does it need to do to be one?
  • Schmolendevice
    Schmolendevice     3rd Aug 2017
    @The8BitPotato More like the Arduino Uno of TPT. I'd say it's of the perfect size to be used as a little portable "microcontroller".
  • NoVIcE
    NoVIcE     3rd Aug 2017
    apple5265 yes it would be possible to bridge two or more computers, with the IO ports and some form of controller. QuanTech, if I was... LBPHacker for example I would.
  • The8BitPotato
    The8BitPotato     3rd Aug 2017
    This is like the Raspberry Pi of TPT.
  • KingVampyre
    KingVampyre     2nd Aug 2017
    Easy to understand , +1