My jaw just dropped upon seeing what can be achieved considering the amount of resource that was used.
If you're used to program only with modern hardware (PC/Mac/iPhone/Android/whatever) you'll never understand how insanely fast 2.5k RAM can be consumed. For example, declaring a fixed char[] of 255 chars would consume 10% of the entire amount of physical memory you have (you can, however, have "swap" on the Microsd card but that's another problem.)
Microtouch is an amazing kit. I had a chance to work on the Microtouch for a while and it was incredibly fun. I currently have my microtouch kit hanging outside of my office as an interactive picture frame ( http://tnhh.net/pancake/2011/09/lolz-pic-frame.html ), but because of this I might want to take it back some time :-)
> My jaw just dropped upon seeing what can be achieved considering the amount of resource that was used.
He's kind of cheating: even though the microcontroller contains only 2.5KiB of RAM, he's using an LCD controller with 172800 bytes of video RAM. The microcontroller costs US$3.79 in small quantities; the LCD controller plus some LCD (maybe not the same one) costs US$36 from Adafruit https://www.adafruit.com/products/335 or US$22 from Mouser http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Microtips-Technology/MTF....
If you're used to program only with modern hardware (PC/Mac/iPhone/Android/whatever) you'll never understand how insanely fast 2.5k RAM can be consumed. For example, declaring a fixed char[] of 255 chars would consume 10% of the entire amount of physical memory you have (you can, however, have "swap" on the Microsd card but that's another problem.)
Previous projects of him include Zork for his same hardware platform ( http://rossum.posterous.com/zork-for-the-microtouch ) , the Atari Microsd drive ( http://rossum.posterous.com/a-little-atari-810-disk-drive ). Other parts that come with the microtouch kit (microtouch simulator on Windows, the shell, pacmac, 3d maze, paint) are mind blowing too.
Microtouch is an amazing kit. I had a chance to work on the Microtouch for a while and it was incredibly fun. I currently have my microtouch kit hanging outside of my office as an interactive picture frame ( http://tnhh.net/pancake/2011/09/lolz-pic-frame.html ), but because of this I might want to take it back some time :-)