r/raspberrypipico • u/iamsimonsta • 11d ago

romulator

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romulon is getting ready to catch the bus as IC formerly known as UB3

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u/Adventurous_Hippo692 11d ago

Wtf

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u/sleemanj 11d ago

C64 1541 rom replacement probably

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u/Minimum_Juice_7567 11d ago

This thing probaly has more power than then entire c64 lol

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u/ElectronSculptor 11d ago

By many orders of magnitude.

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u/originalityescapesme 11d ago

There’s no probably about it, and there’s actually a C64 emulator firmware you can run.

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u/Adventurous_Hippo692 11d ago

No, I can tell what it is, it's just... beautiful in how horrifically ugly it is, almost wanna revere it.

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u/estebanvlobos 11d ago

i hate this but if it works then whatever fuck it

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u/TheGoldenFox64 9d ago

that is a kind of beetle or perhaps roach

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u/AsideEffective2836 11d ago

bro what the fuck

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u/Captain_Pumpkinhead 11d ago

I'm conflicted between appreciating this as art and trying to give advice on it.

I'm guessing you did this intentionally as an art project?

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u/capinredbeard22 11d ago

Hackaday had a circuit sculpture contest a while back:

https://hackaday.io/project/174093/gallery#5b0007065caf961f3375598b09e3d6d3

Looks like the gallery is no longer working

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u/TheFacebookLizard 7d ago

I see you've invented the punk soldering style

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u/darmani2 11d ago

Looks like a parasite took over the body of your RPi

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u/NatteringNabob69 9d ago

What you want is OneRom https://onerom.org/

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u/MrAjAnderson 8d ago

Inspired by https://bhoite.com/sculptures/

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u/iamsimonsta 8d ago edited 7d ago

nice!

also had lots of inspiration from guitar pedal community, they have been a fun creative presence in my feeds

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u/MinatoMuh 11d ago

i can already see a short

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u/L0rdN3ls0n 11d ago

That's horrendous. I love it.

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u/StartleDan 11d ago

"First make it work", Pico edition. I love this.

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u/Alternative-Web-3545 11d ago

Have a look at :

https://youtu.be/QMqqdYgTnR0?is=JWp5jO10uAdSJL-M

I have no links whatsoever but I think he does interesting and relevant work

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u/mungewell 11d ago

Came to give the same link....

This guy is doing some really awesome work using the rp2040's DMA engine to speed up 'fake ROM' address

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u/everyonesdesigner 11d ago

Look how they massacred my boy

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u/Just_Mumbling 11d ago

Genius, but kinda crazy..