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Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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1386 points BogdanTheGeek | 1 comments | 15 Sep 25 17:53 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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x187463 ◴[15 Sep 25 14:07 UTC] No.45249934[source]▶
Re-using this sort of device is super cool. I can imagine a post-apocalyptic scenario where a city is run on a hodgepodge of random computing devices like this.

I will say, though, disposable vapes with microcontrollers inside (and even full games and screens from recent reporting) are an egregious source of e-waste. Many layers of stupid are present here.

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kilroy123 ◴[15 Sep 25 14:45 UTC] No.45250322[source]▶
Makes me think of these:

https://duskos.org https://collapseos.org

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amelius ◴[15 Sep 25 15:48 UTC] No.45251137[source]▶
How do I build a 6502 from just the elements?
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vdupras ◴[15 Sep 25 15:58 UTC] No.45251268[source]▶
You begin by making a pen "from just the elements", then work your way up to there.

In other words, it's a huge challenge, but 6502 is closer, in complexity, to the pen than to the, say, AMD Ryzen.

But the primary idea behind Collapse OS isn't to run from 6502 built from the ground up (although it partly is), but to run from frankenstein cobbled up machines made from scavenged parts.

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mm263 ◴[15 Sep 25 16:26 UTC] No.45251649[source]▶
If I scavenge any machine today, how likely would I be to find a 6502 vs something more modern? I’d argue that some people might have a NES at home and one could get a 2A03 from it, but in a hypothetical scenario where I need to scavenge some computational power, I’d find an Android phone
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tlavoie ◴[15 Sep 25 17:04 UTC] No.45252209{3}[source]▶
DuskOS apparently runs on ARM, so one of these vape boards running FORTH would likely feel very roomy indeed.
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BogdanTheGeek ◴[15 Sep 25 17:36 UTC] No.45252598{4}[source]▶
I have ported zForth to an even weaker chip, the famous 10c risc-v micro ch32v003 (16k flash, 2k ram) so no issue running on this: https://github.com/BogdanTheGeek/zForth
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1. romforth ◴[16 Sep 25 02:08 UTC] No.45257232{5}[source]▶
Allow me to brag about romforth (https://github.com/romforth/romforth) which I ported to the "3c" Padauk and can run on really small rom/ram microcontrollers. Caveats: - tested only on an emulator SDCC/ucsim_pdk, not on real hardware - given how small the ram is, there is no user dictionary but new words can be defined and tested using what the Forth folks refer to as "umbilical hosting".