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Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Wow. Didn't see this awesome 3D holographic version of "Second Reality" from 2018 until just now! 😲 youtu.be/US7hzM0a21E

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Holo Reality by Bedrock Bros. (1st place at Modern / Demosplash 2018)

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sylefeb @sylefeb2.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Working on making PLLs easier to use in #Silice, here testing with a #ulx3s / ECP5 board. Four clocks of same frequency, phased out 90 degrees each. If you are wondering why the clock signals are not perfect ... check the wiring 😅 .

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TinyTapeout @tinytapeout.com · 08/04/2026

We already have some nice looking entries into our #demoscene competition! There's still 33 days to go, but don't leave it too late! Start on your entry today: tinytapeout.com/competitions... #ASIC #opensource #TinyTapeout

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sylefeb @sylefeb2.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Here is the board, looking forward to explore all its features!

A picture of the gatemate evaluation board with a VGA PMOD attached.

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sylefeb @sylefeb2.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

This is the basic #Silice VGA test, somewhat of a tradition, I always start there when adding a new #FPGA board. Who's new in this list ? Yes! Working on integrating the GateMate A1 evaluation board! Stay tuned for more info soon. #CologneChips #GateMate

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TinyTapeout @tinytapeout.com · 20/03/2026

Our community built a chip. Tom put it in space. New interview with the CEO of AlbaOrbital - the Scottish startup that's launched more satellites than most countries, with zero government funding. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVeH...

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Our Community Built a Chip. Tom Put It in Space.

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TinyTapeout @tinytapeout.com · 18/02/2026

Very happy to announce the winners of our demoscene competition! 🏆 We had some amazing entries - check out what can be done in just a few square microns of silicon! tinytapeout.com/competitions... Thanks again to our judges and participants! #silicon #demoscene #ASIC

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sylefeb @sylefeb2.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

5/5 Fun facts: 'WhyNot?' was done the last day before deadline during coffee breaks and at night (starting from Warp). It has a couple egregious bugs I'll talk about soon in write-up. Both designs are written in my own HDL, Silice, so its also a huge milestone there! github.com/sylefeb/Silice

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GitHub - sylefeb/Silice: Silice is an easy-to-learn, powerful hardware description language, that simplifies designing hardware algorithms with parallelism and pipelines.

Silice is an easy-to-learn, powerful hardware description language, that simplifies designing hardware algorithms with parallelism and pipelines. - sylefeb/Silice

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sylefeb @sylefeb2.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

4/5 Congratulations to everyone and thanks to @tinytapeout.com for making this possible! Never have imagined doing a (winning) demoscene entry in 2026 on ASIC. This is beyond wild. I was last involved in demoscene in ~1999, I dearly miss these days. TT makes all the fun come back. tinytapeout.com

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Tiny Tapeout - Tiny Tapeout

Tiny Tapeout makes it more accessible than ever to get your designs manufactured on a real chip!

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sylefeb @sylefeb2.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

3/5 All demos feature interesting approaches for graphics + music. There is no 'small demo' here: most are first time Verilog and certainly first time in ASIC! Even the simplest display or music is already a great achievement. All demos thx to @bitluni.bsky.social : www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9Bh...

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LIVE: Casual Making

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sylefeb @sylefeb2.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

2/5 Amazing to win 1st place in these categories, but I want to outline how impressive and creative all the demos are. I worked on Warp in my little corner (summer vacations) and when I discovered what the community had been up to I was blown away. All winners: tinytapeout.com/competitions...

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TT08 Demoscene Winners - Tiny Tapeout

Winners of the TT08 demoscene competition!

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sylefeb @sylefeb2.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

1/5 My two demos won 1st place in Graphics (Warp) and 1st place in Best for size and Single tile (WhyNot?) at the @tinytapeout.com demo competition. Huge thanks to the jury for the recognition. Means a lot to me: started hardware in 2018, and it became a big adventure. m.youtube.com/watch?v=il_q...

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Tiny Tapeout demoscene competition winners announced!

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TinyTapeout @tinytapeout.com · 10/02/2026

Join us tomorrow at 19:00 CET for the announcement of the TT08 demoscene competition winners! www.youtube.com/live/il_qKTi...

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Tiny Tapeout demoscene competition winners will be announced!

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TinyTapeout @tinytapeout.com · 04/02/2026

Finally, we’re ready to announce the demoscene competition winners! 🎉 Join us live on Wednesday the 11th at 19:00 CET to find out who won—and to hear how our amazing judges chose the winners. Click “Notify me” on the stream to get an alert when we go live: www.youtube.com/live/il_qKTi...

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Ian Hanschen @furan.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

come warm yourself by my 100% FPGA logic 3D rasterization pipeline… while the geometry engine (also logic) cubes.

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sylefeb @sylefeb2.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

How can you fit a retro tunnel effect with a sound track in 161x225 μm of silicon? www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELOY... Checkout my detailed write up on making a demo entry to the @tinytapeout.com tt08 competition: github.com/sylefeb/tt08... #asic #fpga #graphics #hardware

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Warp (tt08 demo submission)

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sylefeb @sylefeb2.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

2/3) Amazingly my two entries work: 'Warp' and 'WhyNot' ; 'Warp' is my entry to the demoscene competition and 'WhyNot' was a crazy "let's do it in one day" last minute entry. Both work on actual ASIC!! How cool is that? Preview of Warp: youtu.be/ELOYGwZgHnw

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Warp (tt08 demo submission)

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sylefeb @sylefeb2.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

1/3) Wow, TT08 @tinytapeout.com including all demoscene entries landed and I had no clue, imagine my surprise discovering all the fantastic demos (see below, thx bitluni!) on actual hardware. Kudos to all contributors and the team!! youtube.com/watch?v=A9BhSaqL7jg

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LIVE: Casual Making

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TheZoq2 @thezoq2.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

I finally got around to doing another Surfer release, so now we're on v0.4.0 🎉 My personal highlights are the new web assembly based translator system, and the improvements to our waveform control protocol, and you can read the full change log at gitlab.com/surfer-proje...

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Flux @willflux.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

“Computer graphics provide ways of simulating reality, or building fantastic new worlds, and the power to explore and manipulate those 3D worlds.” Painting By Numbers, BBC Horizon 1981: www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8-5...

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1981: How COMPUTER GRAPHICS Will Change the World | Horizon | Retro Tech | BBC Archive

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 30/11/2025

Quake speedrunning and skill has reached unbelievable new heights. Simply amazing! youtu.be/Uu1_f3-KgtE?...

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Quake’s Most ICONIC Speedrun Has Fallen

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sylefeb @sylefeb2.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

And yes, the trace has been scratched to expose copper, cut in the center, and the resistor soldered onto it. I guess all these years watching @adriansdigitalbasement.com finally payed off 😎

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sylefeb @sylefeb2.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

I'm learning the hard way about termination series resistors. There's a lot more to this story, but this little 0603 51ohm resistor resolved a nightmare that's been haunting me for like ... 2 years!!! (trace is a SPI clock at 50MHz) #pcb #fpga

A termination series resistors patches onto a trace on an otherwise fine PCB.

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sylefeb @sylefeb2.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

WolFPGA on the icepi-zero! Works great!! ( #Wolfenstein raycaster on #FPGA, no CPU, pure graphics, in #Silice) It is a very neat board, packed with features. (Silice already has support, check it out!). Crowd funding still open for a few hours, check it out : www.crowdsupply.com/icy-electron...

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Hackster.io @hacksterio.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Sylvain Munaut has made a best-effort attempt at bringing the 3dfx Voodoo2 graphics accelerator back from the grave — as an accessory for the popular Raspberry Pi 5.

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Sylvain Munaut Brings 3dfx's 1998 Gaming Powerhouse, the Voodoo2, to the Raspberry Pi 5

One of the most popular tech products of the late '90s meets one of the most popular of the 2020s.

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sylefeb @sylefeb2.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Raspberry just addressed several issues in the RP2354 - really great to see, and very cool post. Plus, there is a new hacking challenge ;) www.raspberrypi.com/news/rp2350-...

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RP2350 A4, RP2354, and a new Hacking Challenge - Raspberry Pi

New A4 stepping of our RP2350 microcontroller now available, with security and other improvements. Plus: another RP2350 Hacking Challenge!

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sylefeb @sylefeb2.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

A fantastic result, finally getting rid of layers, filling the part with optimized free-form (well spaced, near constant flow) paths! "Spaghetti"? Yes, but these are ordered in a sequence and can print without collisions. Amazing work by the team! #3dprinting www.linkedin.com/posts/xavier...

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🚀 Our paper "Atomizer: Beyond Non-Planar Slicing for Fused Filament Fabrication" is out! | Xavier Chermain

🚀 Our paper "Atomizer: Beyond Non-Planar Slicing for Fused Filament Fabrication" is out! We’re thrilled to share our latest work, published in Computer Graphics Forum and SGP 2025. Atomize...

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TheZoq2 @thezoq2.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

My thesis is now published online! 🎉 urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=...

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sylefeb @sylefeb2.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

2/3 The non-const wgpuBufferGetMapState will not error in any way, but give you a zeroed-out buffer 🤯 . Took me forever to find out.

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sylefeb @sylefeb2.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

1/3 Pro-tip: (WebGPU + Emscripten) if you are wondering why your mapped buffer contains only zeros, make sure to use wgpuBufferGetConstMappedRange on your WGPUBufferUsage_MapRead buffer.

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Breathing Retro @breathing-retro.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

An article about how using a HAIRDRYER, one can achieve interesting graphical effects on #Atari8bit computers (non-English so use your favorite translator): atariarea.krap.pl/artykul/dgf/41 #retrodev #reverseengineering #atari #retrocomputing

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sylefeb @sylefeb2.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

This is as simple as it gets: - clone the Silice repo - run ./get_started_yowasp.sh - go to projects/blinky - make yowasp-ulx3s - open localhost:8000 - program your board from a browser (locally)!

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sylefeb @sylefeb2.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

#Silice now has preliminary support for @whitequark.org YoWASP! Checkout Silice getting started instructions here: github.com/sylefeb/Sili... (draft branch) pip install yowasp-silice!

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Matt Venn @mattvenn.net · 26/02/2025

Really enjoyed some of the back story of the jumperless development on the latest amphour podcast - check it out! theamphour.com/689-a-jumper... @architeuthisflux.bsky.social @chrisgammell.bsky.social

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#689 – A Jumperless Breadboard with Kevin Cappucio | The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast

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sylefeb @sylefeb2.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Nearing a #Silice main branch update, testing a5k and it still just works! This is a complete hardware implementation of Another World's VM on #FPGA, here running on the mighty #mch2022 badge. a5k repo + write up: github.com/sylefeb/a5k Silice: github.com/sylefeb/Sili...

An image of the mch2022 badge running Another World's famous intro scene.

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Mike Bell @rebelmike.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I finally got around to testing the second project I had on #TinyTapeout 06. This squeezed 64 bytes of RAM into a single Tiny Tapeout tile (roughly 160x100 um). It works!

Screenshot of part of a console window, saying all 3 tests (basic, all and random) passed in 116 seconds.

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sylefeb @sylefeb2.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

14/ Using the design is quite simple, after loading data in the pmod, I select my design, change the clock frequency (currently runs at 17MHz max, I'll have to investigate, more on this later!), and hit reset.

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sylefeb @sylefeb2.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

13/ urish already made a great tool just for that! github.com/TinyTapeout/... I just modified it to initialize Quad-SPI transfer after uploading a file, as my design is very lazy and assumes the PSRAM pmod is already fully loaded and ready to go!

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GitHub - TinyTapeout/tinytapeout-flasher: QSPI Pmod Flasher app for Tiny Tapeout

QSPI Pmod Flasher app for Tiny Tapeout. Contribute to TinyTapeout/tinytapeout-flasher development by creating an account on GitHub.

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sylefeb @sylefeb2.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

12/ How do I put data in memory in the first place? #TinyTapeout is an amazing project with amazing tool, and the demo board has a RP2040 onboard with micropython on it. So you can use that to initialize ('flash') data in the PSRAM pmod before statrting your design.

Interface to upload data into the PSRAM pmod

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sylefeb @sylefeb2.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

11/ I store all of that in memory (in the PSRAM pmod): for each step, 1/z and x,y offsets along the ray. The terrain texture (height and color) is also fetched from memory.

Top view of the terrain drawing algorithm, in blue everything that is fetched from memory: 1/z, ray increments.

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sylefeb @sylefeb2.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

10/ However, I pre-compute many things in RAM to reduce the design size. The algorithm draws the screen column by column, left to right, and then steps along the ray in depth. Each step it draws small segments if they are visible. This requires 1/z, as well as stepping in x,y along the ray.

Side view of the terrain renderer, drawing a column between a previous position on screen to the next

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sylefeb @sylefeb2.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

8/ To squeeze it in there I rely a lot on memory: there is a PSRAM mod attached with ample memory for lookup tables. I am using Machdyne PSRAM pmod github.com/machdyne/qqspi It's pin-compatible with TinyTapeout pmod by bsky.app/profile/rebe... I think, so you can test with it too.

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GitHub - machdyne/qqspi: QQSPI Pmod-compatible 32MB PSRAM module

QQSPI Pmod-compatible 32MB PSRAM module. Contribute to machdyne/qqspi development by creating an account on GitHub.

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sylefeb @sylefeb2.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

7/ Now for some technical details! This renderer fits in two tiles of the TinyTapeout chip. That's 161x225 μm (130nm process), and roughly 3000 gates.

A preview on two tiles of a silicon chip in the tinytapeout project

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