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11 Sep 2026
Cognitive Tether Engineering: Automate the Work Without Automating Away The Engineer
Something happend the other day that left me geninely concerned. I happend across a diagram going around LinkedIn at the moment that was showing an …
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06 Sep 2026
TinkerStream: A Local Edge Impulse Alternative for RISC-V
Edge Impulse is a good product and I want to say that plainly before anything else, because what follows is a comparison and comparisons tend …
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04 Sep 2026
I Trained GPT on a RISC-V MCU with No FPU in 37KB of Memory
So before the machine learning aficionados tell me how I'm "technically" wrong let me explain the architecture. The model is a complete decoder only transformer …
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16 Aug 2026
A Third World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better"
Dmitry Grinberg published a long piece explaining his distaste for RISC-V, you can read his article here: RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better - Dmitry.GR. …
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13 Aug 2026
Your Baochip Dabao Board Arrived? Quickstart with Bare Metal C.
The Dabao boards are landing! and if you backed the Crowd Supply campaign or picked up a Baochip-1x some other way, you are now holding …
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10 Aug 2026
Thirty Thousand People Now Have a Baochip-1x
DEF CON 34 closed yesterday. If you were there, you came home with a badge built around Andrew "bunnie" Huang's Baochip-1x, and by now you …
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28 May 2026
RV Circuit Studio v0.1.4: An Offline First CircuitPython IDE
CircuitPython made embedded programming approachable. You plug in a board, it shows up as a USB drive, you edit code.py, and it just runs. No …
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08 May 2026
Dabao SDK: A Bare Metal C SDK for the Baochip-1x RISC-V SoC
The Baochip-1x is a 22nm RISC-V SoC designed by bunnie Huang. It features an MMU, hardware cryptography (AES, SHA-256, TRNG), 2.5 MB of on-chip ReRAM, …
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26 Apr 2026
Hands On with the Baochip-1x: First Impressions from Bare Metal C
After spending some time with this chip, the closest comparison I can offer is: imagine if someone took a Raspberry Pi Pico, replaced the PIO …
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21 Mar 2026
Getting FreeRTOS, LVGL and Touch to Play Nicely on the CH32V307 with GCC 15
How one missing bit in mstatus silently broke everything, and the six fixes it took to get a modern GCC toolchain running FreeRTOS on WCH's …
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