GoKawiilFor years, devices like the RbPi have been described as “credit-card sized”.
And of course the message is rather the footprint, but at some point I became obsessed with taking that idea one step further:
What would it take to build something that is literally sized like a credit card?
I've got a slight feeling that you really don't seem to like questions here, but I hope this rhetorical one is okay :P
That question slowly escalated into months of experiments to find solutions for things where default methods won't work. I can't use large, rigid components, connectors, and find a way to make my own custom flexPCB.
And after months of tinkering, I made the first prototype. Fragile, but it works within the goal of not exceeding 1 millimeter. Somehow, news pages have picked this up and described it as "revolutionary" which is a bit far fetched, but I feel flattered 🤭
To be fair, 'computer' might be a little overstatement, but it's technically perfectly within the definition of one. If you should have suitable words for it that sounds cool, feel free to suggest ^^
The prototype includes:
ESP32-C3FH4 w/ WiFi & BLE
NFC read/write
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