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Logic Destroyer — Proven in Silicon. (@logicdestroyer.bsky.social)

Bro... it's kind of crazy. You build a Linux SoC from scratch on an FPGA, get Linux running on it, and your original goal was simply to run a C64 emulator on your own Linux system. KianV StealthV.

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Run3 is open!

And I am now committed: (edited)

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Great writeup in Ars Technica on Bunnie Huang's Baochip for DEFCON: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/08/defcons-new-badge-is-a-security-key-you-can-see-inside/

Defcon's new badge is a security key you can see inside

A removable chip lets hackers inspect their badge—and keep using it after Defcon.

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@Essen : Run 3 is off-topic??

Tim Edwards

@Essen : Run 3 is off-topic??

Alright, maybe not my best work

Essen

Alright, maybe not my best work

Still great! Can't wait to see your design!!

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Andrew Wingate

Still great! Can't wait to see your design!!

Thanks @Andrew Wingate On another subject, your meme chip is taking over the humor on my side with phrases like much food and wow fun creeping into the discourse.

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Essen

Thanks @Andrew Wingate On another subject, your meme chip is taking over the humor on my side with phrases like much food and wow fun creeping into the discourse.

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Very thanks!

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Andrew Wingate

Very thanks!

Much response

Was it the process of up everything just to realize I ordered the wrong footprint on my ferrite bead and I don't have any replacements in stock ... vdm (edited)

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FO2 buffer on IHP.... C4 clock of 25G.... Promising! C8 of 10G should be eerily comfy that way (on gf180mcuD), and with enough luck a straight port of what comes for the IHP chipalooza, so.... yeah.....

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/asm-hall-of-shame is pretty fun

GitHub - xoreaxeaxeax/asm-hall-of-shame: Racing to the bottom of CP...

Racing to the bottom of CPU performance. Contribute to xoreaxeaxeax/asm-hall-of-shame development by creating an account on GitHub.

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kicad fail

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/owner-of-original-intel-8080-pre-production-layout-seeks-restorer-handcrafted-rubylith-mask-shows-5-000-transistors-and-interconnect-patterns-of-the-fabled-2-mhz-cpu

Owner of original Intel 8080 pre-production layout seeks restorer ...

The same computing history artifact was previously pictured alongside Andy Grove, Robert Noyce, and Gordon Moore in 1978.

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