[HN Gopher] Fuzix on a Raspberry Pi Pico
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Fuzix on a Raspberry Pi Pico
Author : ewpratten
Score : 107 points
Date : 2025-12-15 06:31 UTC (5 days ago)
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| incanus77 wrote:
| Fuzix came preintalled as one of the options on my ClockworkPi
| PicoCalc, which has really been the most fun iteration of the
| Pico that I've played with yet. I've also been enjoying uLisp and
| MMBasic on it. The keyboard is quite good.
| t43562 wrote:
| The first computer I touched, and I'm not that old, had 1kb RAM
| (ZX81) so the pico is a supercomputer next to that. It has all
| happened gradually but in a way I feel a little bit sorry for the
| whippersnappers that haven't experienced the incredible
| advancements. Looking back is different to remembering how one
| looked forward and how the actuality beat one's wildest dreams.
|
| There are still older people than me who experienced an even
| steeper curve but I hope that my daughter will enjoy the same
| thing - to live in a massively better world than the one she
| started in.
|
| It's not better in the human ways - still lots of fighting and
| evil - but it's great to be able to stay in touch with one's
| family over huge distances and to be able to make boredom vanish
| at the touch of a button, to want to fix something and instantly
| get 100 videos of how to do it. To find some bit of code
| extremely boring to write and to get a machine to write it.
| regularfry wrote:
| It's kind of crazy how much compute the Pico has. If you ignore
| the dedicated 3d hardware, it's comparable to the original
| Playstation.
| Tepix wrote:
| Very cool, happy to find out about Fuzix running on these dirt
| cheap SoCs (I paid 0.57EUR per RP2040-Zero clone earlier this
| year!) And someone is even working on adding TCP/IP. I'm assuming
| there's no memory protection between processes due to no MMU. It
| would be great to be able to use the USB port for the serial
| connection instead of having to connect pins for a serial port
| connection.
|
| There's also https://github.com/tvlad1234/pico-rv32ima for people
| who are into this kind of stuff, but it requires adding SPI RAM.
| hxbdbebdb wrote:
| How did you manage to pay that low, that's less then I pay per
| rp2040 MCU without any peripheral
| Tepix wrote:
| It was on AliExpress in the coin store. With shipping.
| verytrivial wrote:
| This port of Fuzix to the Pico was done by David Given. In 2021
| he also screen-recorded and narrated basically his entire effort
| porting Fuzix to similarly-sized ESP8266. Really very interesting
| if you are in to that sort of thing!
|
| https://cowlark.com/2021-02-09-esp8266-fuzix/index.html
| exasperaited wrote:
| The Pico series is, IMO, the truest implementation of the
| Raspberry Pi Foundation's broader goal to make physical computing
| accessible to education. I am so glad that this is now such a
| major focus for both the foundation and the trading company (a
| pivot that was accelerated by the pandemic chip shortage)
|
| The RP2350 is an awesome device but hypothetically it feels like
| the _next_ one is where things will really kick off, because
| there likely won't be a 90s computer it can't emulate, and it
| feels clear from what Eben Upton says that retrocomputing,
| historical device education and simple 90s-style computing
| environments are part of the picture, and that absolutely dirt-
| cheap simplified modern "home computer" environments on these
| devices could have value to them.
| 1-6 wrote:
| +1 to simple machines.
|
| As an analogy and anecdote, I've learned a lot about cars
| through RC racing as a teen. Building differentials, CVDs and
| Universal Joints, hydraulic shocks towers, and tuning radios
| really gave me the baseline to know and fix cars as an adult.
|
| I still lack a very basic understanding of computers which has
| somewhat neutered what I'm capable of doing today. I'm now
| sorta getting back into learning these things but it's kinda
| hard when it is limited to weekends and holidays. I hope RPI
| keeps going with their vision as a publicly traded company.
| Kids need to learn these things.
| 1-6 wrote:
| Thanks for this writeup, I'm going to try myself as I have a few
| Raspberry Pi Picos laying around myself. I'm going to try to
| create a Google Colab Notebook for my virtual environment
| instead.
| Western0 wrote:
| 2350 have better flashing system
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