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saagarjha
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Tetris for TS100 soldering iron
> STM32F103T8U6 (ARM Cortex M3, clock frequency 72 MHz)
That's one powerful chip for a soldering iron.
Angostura
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How do you think they get it to warm up so fast?
bostand
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Needed for those smooth animations in the UI. Yes, animations.
Seriously, this iron got style.
saagarjha
on Sept 5, 2017
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Back in my day we did animations in 8 MHz and we liked it!
flukus
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That makes the tetris port less impressive, where's the Gameboy Advance emulator?
saagarjha
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Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if someone can pull this off–to me it looks plenty powerful enough for it.
TeMPOraL
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Time for Doom on the soldering iron then?
DonHopkins
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It has a Slow Down and Almost Catch Fire instruction.
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That's one powerful chip for a soldering iron.