#673 – Lifelong Learning with Bitluni
Bitluni joins Chris on The Amp Hour to discuss FPGAs, ESP32 projects, custom silicon, building around memes, and continually challenging yourself to learn something new.
The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
July 15, 2024
Show Notes
Welcome, Matthias Balwierz / Bitluni / Luni!
- Midi pedals
- Old projects
- LED walls
- Dunning kruger
- Sonar scanner
- Aliens
- Romulus
- Lifelong learning
- Beamforming
- Previously had worked on something similar in the medical field but didn’t realize it was the same tech
- ESP32
- Gowin FPGA
- Video generation / crt control
- R2R
- cnlohr videos for making PCBs
- ESP32 VGA
- PCB mill
- Failing
- Tiny Tapeout bringing down costs like PCBs
- Jeri doing “home etching” (making silicon at home)
- Building the meme project on TT02
- GIF construction set
- Almost like a ROM on board, on each clock it exposes the next byte on paralell output
- Luni hasn’t submitted to each tiny tapeout but is building a new project
- Browser assembler that runs in the handheld gaming: “Luni-Asm”
- cpu + gpu to get vector output
- Bitluni live youtube / Bitluni – twitch happens Weds at 8 pm CEST
- Community helps
- Writing memory controllers
- Bus master because internal SRAM is so expensive
- Expense of flash/ram is in IP
- People running test structures the tiles
- FPGAs, Gowin – 9K standard up to 25k
- Gabriel / Lushay Labs – Tutorials for FPGAs
- HDMI connector
- Some IP blocks from Gowin
- Yosys support
- VS code tools and simulation
- Gowin FPGA designer
- Learning clock domains
- Moving back to art
- Demoscene came from the cracker scene
- Different categories / limits
- 4K category only allows 4K of memory for images and sound (generated)
- White demo competitions
- Contact