Very nice. I'm always happy to see new FPGA implementations of retro computing hardware. I've wanted to try Chisel, but have never gotten around to it.
I have spent hundreds of hours developing multiple apps for AVP, but I personally can't use it at all. My vision is uncorrected for general daily use (I wear glasses at the computer for slightly improved comfort, but I can see fine), but I find the Vision Pro to be fairly blurry, to the point that it's uncomfortable to use. I bought the custom Zeiss lenses, and they help marginally, but it's still blurry, particularly when mirroring a Mac display.
I recently had a friend with similarly good vision try it out, and he didn't think it was so bad until I mirrored the Mac display, and he agreed it was unusable.
Very disappointing for me, as this was something I was looking forward to for a long time.
This is really nice, and I just did this analysis myself.
It seems like the tool is missing some of the better deals, like Optiplex 3070 with 9th gen i5s for ~$100, entire working system included (this is what I ended up buying).
I believe I looked up common machines with good prices, then searched for those individually, which obviously isn't going to work very well for this tool.
I custom designed a ring for my then girlfriend and sent it to Shapeways to have a mold 3D printed, then cast in silver. It turned out quite well (other than us having sizing issues). You can see my progress pictures here: https://old.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/6292xd/i_design...
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Now, 8 years later, I'm really wishing I had designed my own ring. I would prefer to avoid the cliche metals (silver, gold, platinum), and I can't wear silver anyway (allergic). I would really like to find an interesting or unusual metal (scientifically or just in general) that isn't going to cause issues due to its hardness if my finger swells (titanium or tungsten are very difficult to cut off in those situations).
Niobium a.k.a. columbium is very safe for allergies (like titanium, its surface is automatically protected by an invisible but very resistant oxide layer). It has an interesting history, being one of the few metals (except the rare-earth metals) that have been discovered only after the beginning of the 19th century, in a mineral first found in USA.
However, it is not much softer than titanium or tungsten. Even so, it is quite frequently used for rings, piercings or medical implants with minimum health risks.
No metal suitable for contact with skin is as soft as silver and gold. For any ring made of another metal than these 2 you may need to go to a professional to cut it, if the ring cannot be taken out even with the help of some lubricant.
>isn't going to cause issues due to its hardness if my finger swells (titanium or tungsten are very difficult to cut off in those situations).
You're overlooking a huge benefit to a titanium ring: if you're trapped in an undersea mining rig that's flooding and the automatic door in front of you is closing, you can stop the door using your ring.
I have the same problem with everything being slightly blurry, including Mac mirroring, rendering it unusable. It's very annoying given I have very good vision normally, but have so much trouble seeing in Vision.
I discovered recently that I can focus fine on my hand a few inches from my face in real life, but the default onscreen keyboard position on Vision is too close for me to see clearly, even though its "much further away".
I'm very curious if they've seen reactions like this. In my mind Rewind is more egregious privacy wise, though it does have the advantage of being very unknown and default off, compared to built into Windows.
LiteX is very neat, but at the same time is a massive pain as soon as you move past building an example SoC. I've been spending a lot of time on this recently.
