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An 8-Bit Microcontroller in Pure LaTeX

Shown by stettberger on Oct 13, 2014. Click the card to turn it over.

122points

18comments

#223of 2,272 in 2014

Top 10%of 2014 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

4 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 9 comments about the project. Thread score +0.22.

Idea: 4 for, 1 against

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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker

Fun and crazy idea
From 2 comments
- This is mental and I love it.
  Extigy on HN
- "Are you insane? Not that anybody knows of." hahaha that cracked me up, especially that i actually considered the possibility when i read the title.
  adhambadr on HN
Wants more projects like this
From 1 comment
- We need more of this.
  f137 on HN

Code is TeX rather than LaTeX
From 1 comment
- To be pedantic: this code is largely in TeX, not LaTeX.
  SeanLuke on HN

Emulate a bigger system such as Linux on an ARM SoC
From 1 comment
- That reminds me of this, a slightly bigger AVR emulating an ARM SoC running Linux: http://dmitry.gr/index.php?r=05.Projects&proj=07.+Linux+on+8bit Emulate that system instead,…
  userbinator on HN
Control real hardware via shell escape and serial port
From 1 comment
- I wonder if this could be modified to control actual hardware? It looks the `\write18` command can be used to execute shell commands if LaTeX is run with the `--shell-escape`…
  msarnoff on HN

Whether it is useful beyond being a fun project
From 1 comment
- this is cool and you seem obviously intelligent, have you considered making something people want?
  dsugarman on HN

Dmitry's AVR-emulated ARM Linux system
From 1 comment
- That reminds me of this, a slightly bigger AVR emulating an ARM SoC running Linux: http://dmitry.gr/index.php?r=05.Projects&proj=07.+Linux+on+8bit Emulate that system instead,…
  userbinator on HN
IPython notebook for data workflows
From 1 comment
- I was looking for this workflow for my research, and ended up going with an ipython notebook.
  MechSkep on HN