7/18/2026 at 9:40:23 PM
by whiteblossom
7/19/2026 at 11:20:25 AM
Author here - original HN post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48654676by byb
7/22/2026 at 8:23:31 AM
I’m glad it got reposted because I just tried it out. What a smooth experience! I managed to get an old desktop - with no wifi and far from n ethernet port - connected by this gadget! Great job in getting this to work, creating a nice user interface and releasing it!by ustad
7/18/2026 at 11:28:28 PM
This is so cool!! What a nifty way to make use of a picoby dividedcomet
7/22/2026 at 7:44:56 AM
I was trying to do a virtual camera on the RP Pico but found the LLMs to be really bad at it. So impressive work.by emj
7/22/2026 at 10:32:42 AM
This has been a very fun peripheral to add to my 40 year old Oric Atmos system ...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oric_(computer)
.. which didn't quite live long enough in the 80's to evolve a proper modem/BBS scene, like many of its peer systems in those days did.
But now .. in the 21st century .. with the LOCI device ..
https://www.raxiss.com/article/id/38-LOCI
.. the Oric joins the 80's-era systems online, finally, in a very viable way. The Oric got USB, and combined with the PicoModem, it becomes an exremely fun way to get into BBS'es again.
And these periperhal devices have brought so much power to the Oric .. there are efforts under way to produce a rudimentary web browser, an ssh client, and some other funky/cool things - multiplayer network gaming on a 40-year old 8-bit machine? YES PLEASE!
So thanks, /u/byb, for your great contribution to the retro- computing scene. It has really been rewarding to apply your work to my old system. ;)
by aa-jv