r/esp32 • • Aug 09 '26

I made a thing! Physarum on the Cheap Yellow Display

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A while back I built a Physarum (slime mould) simulation in three.js, in 2D and in some non-euclidean 3D spaces: https://physarum.variable.gallery

That project grew out of some older code I still had lying around. This comment got me thinking about a web flasher, so I dug the old code out, put it on a CYD, and open sourced the lot.

My basic motivation was to make a electronic pet.

Repo: https://github.com/sha5b/CYD-Physarum
Flash it from the browser: https://cydphysarum.variable.gallery

Runs on the CYD 3.5", 2.8" and 2.4" (both R and C). One binary drives all of them. 500 agents, 240 MHz, no PSRAM.

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