Surfing on a Matchbox (1999)

1. revx ◴[09 Jul 25 04:01 UTC] No.44506240[source]▶

>>44486368 (OP) #

Anyone know the current record-holder for world's smallest web server? :)

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2. femto ◴[09 Jul 25 05:19 UTC] No.44506550[source]▶

>>44506240 (TP) #

Probably just a matter of loading the necessary software onto this MCU:

https://www.ti.com/about-ti/newsroom/news-releases/2025/2025...

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3. kingstnap ◴[09 Jul 25 06:24 UTC] No.44506859[source]▶

>>44506550 #

According to the specs, it has 1kB of ram. You're going to need to be quite clever to implement a working TCP-IP stack and an HTTP server in that.

An RSA key is 4kB by itself, so TLS is out of the picture.

4. em3rgent0rdr ◴[09 Jul 25 06:50 UTC] No.44507004[source]▶

>>44506550 #

I was also going to suggest that... But I imagine that the Ethernet port or antennae wire (and necessary battery to power antennae) would dwarf the size of that MCU. But thinking again, I suppose if the rules permit the MCU to be directly wired to the Ethernet cable, then could bitbang an early Ethernet standard with this MCU's pins...

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5. st_goliath ◴[09 Jul 25 08:33 UTC] No.44507591{3}[source]▶

>>44507004 #

If you're going to use an Ethernet jack anyway, you might as well use one that has an ARM SoC already built in and runs Linux:

https://www.digikey.at/en/product-highlight/d/digi-intl/digi...

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6. jagged-chisel ◴[09 Jul 25 09:41 UTC] No.44507966{4}[source]▶

>>44507591 #

“Obsolete and no longer manufactured.” :-(

7. femto ◴[09 Jul 25 11:05 UTC] No.44508516{3}[source]▶

>>44507004 #

I'd do a serial connection using the UART. Serial is a perfectly valid transport.

8. aa-jv ◴[09 Jul 25 11:13 UTC] No.44508577[source]▶

>>44506240 (TP) #

I have a web server (not public) that runs on my M5Stack device ..

https://m5stack.com

And my magicShifter also serves web pages to anyone in my environment ..

https://magicshifter.net/

But I guess the standard is 'on the public web', akin to most publicly accessible web surfers .. for that, I'd be a bit uncomfortable exposing my m5stack/magicshifter to the web, for the time being ..