@sylefeb2.bsky.social
I am a researcher-maker-hacker focusing on Computer Graphics with a #retro, #fpga gaming twist. I am also very much into #3dprinting and #electronics. These days I enjoy making #graphics hardware on fpga, using a language I developed, #Silice
Very happy to announce the winners of our demoscene competition! π
We had some amazing entries - check out what can be done in just a few square microns of silicon!
tinytapeout.com/competitions...
Thanks again to our judges and participants!
#silicon #demoscene #ASIC
5/5 Fun facts:
'WhyNot?' was done the last day before deadline during coffee breaks and at night (starting from Warp). It has a couple egregious bugs I'll talk about soon in write-up.
Both designs are written in my own HDL, Silice, so its also a huge milestone there!
github.com/sylefeb/Silice
4/5 Congratulations to everyone and thanks to @tinytapeout.com for making this possible! Never have imagined doing a (winning) demoscene entry in 2026 on ASIC. This is beyond wild. I was last involved in demoscene in ~1999, I dearly miss these days. TT makes all the fun come back.
tinytapeout.com
3/5 All demos feature interesting approaches for graphics + music. There is no 'small demo' here: most are first time Verilog and certainly first time in ASIC! Even the simplest display or music is already a great achievement.
All demos thx to @bitluni.bsky.social :
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9Bh...
2/5 Amazing to win 1st place in these categories, but I want to outline how impressive and creative all the demos are. I worked on Warp in my little corner (summer vacations) and when I discovered what the community had been up to I was blown away.
All winners: tinytapeout.com/competitions...
1/5 My two demos won 1st place in Graphics (Warp) and 1st place in Best for size and Single tile (WhyNot?) at the @tinytapeout.com demo competition. Huge thanks to the jury for the recognition. Means a lot to me: started hardware in 2018, and it became a big adventure.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=il_q...
Join us tomorrow at 19:00 CET for the announcement of the TT08 demoscene competition winners!
www.youtube.com/live/il_qKTi...
Finally, weβre ready to announce the demoscene competition winners! π
Join us live on Wednesday the 11th at 19:00 CET to find out who wonβand to hear how our amazing judges chose the winners.
Click βNotify meβ on the stream to get an alert when we go live:
www.youtube.com/live/il_qKTi...
come warm yourself by my 100% FPGA logic 3D rasterization pipeline⦠while the geometry engine (also logic) cubes.
02.02.2026 21:14 β π 28 π 4 π¬ 2 π 1
How can you fit a retro tunnel effect with a sound track in 161x225 ΞΌm of silicon? www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELOY...
Checkout my detailed write up on making a demo entry to the @tinytapeout.com tt08 competition: github.com/sylefeb/tt08...
#asic #fpga #graphics #hardware
3/3 You too can make it, it is not easy, but not as hard as you might think, checkout @tinytapeout.com here:
tinytapeout.com/
2/3) Amazingly my two entries work: 'Warp' and 'WhyNot' ; 'Warp' is my entry to the demoscene competition and 'WhyNot' was a crazy "let's do it in one day" last minute entry. Both work on actual ASIC!! How cool is that?
Preview of Warp: youtu.be/ELOYGwZgHnw
1/3) Wow, TT08 @tinytapeout.com including all demoscene entries landed and I had no clue, imagine my surprise discovering all the fantastic demos (see below, thx bitluni!) on actual hardware. Kudos to all contributors and the team!!
youtube.com/watch?v=A9BhSaqL7jg
I finally got around to doing another Surfer release, so now we're on v0.4.0 π
My personal highlights are the new web assembly based translator system, and the improvements to our waveform control protocol, and you can read the full change log at gitlab.com/surfer-proje...
βComputer graphics provide ways of simulating reality, or building fantastic new worlds, and the power to explore and manipulate those 3D worlds.β
Painting By Numbers, BBC Horizon 1981: www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8-5...
Quake speedrunning and skill has reached unbelievable new heights. Simply amazing!
youtu.be/Uu1_f3-KgtE?...
And yes, the trace has been scratched to expose copper, cut in the center, and the resistor soldered onto it. I guess all these years watching @adriansdigitalbasement.com finally payed off π
08.10.2025 17:18 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A termination series resistors patches onto a trace on an otherwise fine PCB.
I'm learning the hard way about termination series resistors. There's a lot more to this story, but this little 0603 51ohm resistor resolved a nightmare that's been haunting me for like ... 2 years!!! (trace is a SPI clock at 50MHz) #pcb #fpga
08.10.2025 17:13 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
WolFPGA on the icepi-zero! Works great!! ( #Wolfenstein raycaster on #FPGA, no CPU, pure graphics, in #Silice)
It is a very neat board, packed with features. (Silice already has support, check it out!).
Crowd funding still open for a few hours, check it out :
www.crowdsupply.com/icy-electron...
Sylvain Munaut has made a best-effort attempt at bringing the 3dfx Voodoo2 graphics accelerator back from the grave β as an accessory for the popular Raspberry Pi 5.
11.08.2025 17:40 β π 8 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
An interesting #retrocomputing channel by Bits und Bolts
#retrogaming #MSDOS #Windows95 #Windows98
Raspberry just addressed several issues in the RP2354 - really great to see, and very cool post. Plus, there is a new hacking challenge ;)
www.raspberrypi.com/news/rp2350-...
A fantastic result, finally getting rid of layers, filling the part with optimized free-form (well spaced, near constant flow) paths! "Spaghetti"? Yes, but these are ordered in a sequence and can print without collisions. Amazing work by the team!
#3dprinting
www.linkedin.com/posts/xavier...
Congratulations!!
06.06.2025 15:23 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
My thesis is now published online! π
urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=...
3/3 As always, thanks Elie for a great WebGPU resource and the life saving note in the page: eliemichel.github.io/LearnWebGPU/...
02.05.2025 16:35 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 02/3 The non-const wgpuBufferGetMapState will not error in any way, but give you a zeroed-out buffer π€― . Took me forever to find out.
02.05.2025 16:35 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 01/3 Pro-tip: (WebGPU + Emscripten) if you are wondering why your mapped buffer contains only zeros, make sure to use wgpuBufferGetConstMappedRange on your WGPUBufferUsage_MapRead buffer.
02.05.2025 16:35 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
An article about how using a HAIRDRYER, one can achieve interesting graphical effects on #Atari8bit computers (non-English so use your favorite translator): atariarea.krap.pl/artykul/dgf/41
#retrodev #reverseengineering #atari #retrocomputing
