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salvagedcircuitry.com — Fixing a dead Sigma lens with a fifty-cent fuse
Jun 6, 2026 258 87

Fixing a dead Sigma lens with a fifty-cent fuse

How a $58 eBay gamble on a broken mirrorless lens turned into a lesson on modern embedded hardware and why fuses are for fires, not silicon.

lens-repair electronics hardware-hacking embedded photography
salvagedcircuitry.com
maurycyz.com — Hosting a website on a $1 microcontroller
May 17, 2026 253 23

Hosting a website on a $1 microcontroller

One programmer squeezed a real TCP/IP stack onto a $1 AVR chip using SLIP over serial. The site is slow, the TCP is buggy, and it loads.

embedded networking avr tcp-ip low-level
maurycyz.com
news.ycombinator.com — XS: A 2.9 MB Binary That Is an Entire Programming Toolchain
May 17, 2026 21 16

XS: A 2.9 MB Binary That Is an Entire Programming Toolchain

XS packs compiler, debugger, formatter, package manager, and six backends into one 2.9 MB binary that runs on Linux, macOS, ESP32, and more.

programming-languages toolchain compilers open-source embedded
news.ycombinator.com

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