An independent developer wrote an assembly-level implementation of the FAST feature detector using the ESP32-S3 microcontroller's 128-bit SIMD instructions, achieving about double the speed of the reference implementation and processing a 320x240 frame in roughly 6 milliseconds. The project, including a custom register allocator called basm, has been published as open-source code.
shraiwi.com
· 2026-10-25
A developer of the Floppy Emu disk emulator found that a new manufacturing batch failed quality assurance with strange symptoms: some boards wouldn't boot, others showed erratic 'haunted' behavior jumping through code, and one ran in slow motion. After months of setting the failures aside, the developer began systematic debugging with power checks, solder reflows, and a hardware debugger to isolate the cause, suspecting a change introduced by a new subcontractor at the contract manufacturer.
bigmessowires.com
· 2026-09-17
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