I have this running on a Fubarino. It's nice to fiddle with but not quite useful to be serious. I have an ethernet module that at some point I need to hook up to it.
What I really want is a DIP version of the PIC32 with enough RAM and flash to run this or the 4.4-based LiteBSD[1] by the same people.
I wonder why there's no port for the ESP32 boards family. Plenty of RAM/Flash (compared to PIC32), lots of I/O ports and peripherals and built in WiFi/BT. It just seems to me the perfect target, or am I missing something?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESP32
I think its because the PIC32 uses the MIPS 4k CPU architecture which a compiler that can build this RetroBSD exists for. I'm not sure what kind of CPU architecture the ESP32 uses-- I think its some proprietary DSP core.
Exactly. I build projects in my spare time to teach people how to solder. SOIC or QFN is just about doable for beginners, but having a full Unix computer that anyone can build in an afternoon would be pretty cool.
What I really want is a DIP version of the PIC32 with enough RAM and flash to run this or the 4.4-based LiteBSD[1] by the same people.
[1] - https://github.com/sergev/LiteBSD