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  • dragontamer@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    This thing is like 5x more MHz with 8x more RAM than an Arduino. 18MHz and 128kB is plenty.

    Remember: the Apollo flight computer (Moon landing) was accomplished with 2MHz and 4096 bytes of RAM. Even the Arduino is more computationally powerful than the Moon Lander.

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        10 months ago

        Any computer application you can think of from the 1970s or earlier can be replicated by a device of approximately the specs listed in this topic.

        IE: Airplanes, Space Exploration, Differential Equations, Matrix Multiplications, Simulations, Cruise Missiles, Homing Missiles, Firing Computers (aka: aim-bots), RADAR, SONAR, Radio communications, Error-correction codes, Reed-Solomon (aka: reliable communications to the Voyager Probe)

        To just give you an incomplete idea of what’s possible. So erm… anything you want, really. Yeah, we have faster computers today, but we use most of that computational power for convenience and graphics, rather than like, actually solving problems.


        The vast majority of car controls (Air Bags, Tire Pressure Sensors, Electronic Computer timings, Traction Control, Radio, etc. etc.) is built up from cheap (but very reliable) microcontrollers. Industrial control systems that run our factories and precisely perform operations using servos and sensors are also using chips of this caliber.

        You might be surprised at what a few MHz and a few kilobytes of RAM can accomplish.

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          10 months ago

          Oh, well in that case I’m making a USB connected sonar guided homing missile with an airbag!

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            10 months ago

            That’s what confused me.

            Modern versions of ATMega (ex: the AVR DD) run at 4MHz by default, even if they can go up to 24MHz. Looking back at ATMega328p (which powered the Arduino Uno, aka the one that got popular), the ATMega328p defaults to 1MHz. (IE: 8MHz internal oscillator with 1/8 clock division == 1MHz overall)