#video on writing #games in #Godot, specifically a skeleton-themed home farming thing called “Living for Plants”
#video on why #Samyam doesn’t like writing #videogames in #Godot
#JLCPCB has the STM32G431 #hardware in stock for US$1.76 in quantity 30, less than half of Digi-Key’s #pricing
#JLCPCB has new cheapest #microcontrollers: #Nyquest NY8A051H: 1.58¢ each in quantity 20000, or 3.2¢ in quantity 1 #hardware #pricing
#Nyquest #PDF #datasheet for 1.58¢ #microcontrollers. Sounds like a #PIC 12F or 16F. 14-bit instruction words, GOTO instruction, INDF magic indirect addressing register, 55 “powerful” instructions, bit test and skip for control flow, flags named Z and C and DC (for decimal carry), one-address instruction format with an accumulator. The NY8A050 version has 32 bytes of RAM and 512 instructions of program, the 051 has 48 and 1024.
Chuck McManis’s introduction to #PIC #microcontrollers
cost of living by country, local purchasing power index, etc.