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🚀 In a groundbreaking revelation, we discover that #FPGAs can fit in USB ports! 🙄 Apparently, playing with decades-old tech is "interesting" if you add enough jargon. 🦖 Who knew routing signals in a thumb drive was the pinnacle of innovation? 😅
https://danielmangum.com/posts/spi-routing-ice40-fpga/ #USBInnovation #TechTrends #SignalRouting #NerdHumor #HackerNews #ngated

Interesting SPI Routing with iCE40 FPGAs

A few weeks ago I posted about how much fun I was having with the Fomu FPGA development board while travelling. This project from Tim ‘mithro’ Ansell and Sean ‘xobs’ Cross is not new, but remains a favorite of mine because of how portable it is — the entire board can fit in your USB port! The Fomu includes a Lattice Semiconductor iCE40 UltraPlus 5K, which has been a popular FPGA option over the past few years due to the reverse engineered bitstream format and ability to program it with a fully open source toolchain (see updated repository here).

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🤖💡 Wow, a 0.96-inch screen! Finally, I can read my #notifications with a magnifying glass. 📏🔍 Because, clearly, what every modern computer desperately needs is another tiny USB gadget to tell you what you already know. 🙄💻
https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/09/18/2-weact-display-fs-adds-a-0-96-inch-usb-information-display-to-your-computer/ #tinygadgets #USBinnovation #techhumor #moderncomputing #HackerNews #ngated

$2 WeAct Display FS adds a 0.96-inch USB information display to your computer

WeAct Display FS is an inexpensive 0.96-inch USB display dongle designed to add an information display or a tiny secondary display to your computer or SBC. We've seen this type of information display with products such as the Turing Smart Screen, a larger 3.5-inch color display, or small OLEDs integrated into cases such as the Pironman 5 Max to disable text. The WeAct Display FS V1 may be tiny, but it's also a full-color 160x80 resolution display that can be customized with software provided by WeAct. WeAct Display FS V1 specifications: Display - 0.96-inch RGB565 display with 160x80 resolution Host interface - "Reversible" USB 2.0 Type-A Full Speed (FS) port showing as a CDC device Dimensions - 43 x 14.5 mm Since you wouldn't want to get a display only for it to face the wrong direction, for instance, the desk or the wall, the company made the USB-A port

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