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Craig J. Bishop
Personal blog · craigjb.com · on HN as craigjbhardwaresystems
Craig J. Bishop's personal blog at craigjb.com covers hardware and systems. Since 2018, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Show HN: Gameslab, a FPGA powered handheld game console”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-10, and you can follow it by feed.
Adventures in hardware hacking, low-level software, FPGAs, and more!
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: Gameslab, a FPGA powered handheld game console2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-12-24
- SoundSlab: How It Started2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-11
What Hacker News says?
Thanks! I did a video talking about the case a bit more: https://craigjb.com/2019/12/06/gameslab-case/ I had it fabricated for me by a company by Front Panel Express. In a DIY audiophile forum I saw people using them, and if they're good enough for audiophile gear, probably good enough for me :P
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on “Show HN: Gameslab, a FPGA powered handheld game console”Submitted Show HN: Gameslab, a FPGA powered handheld game console as a story · 406 points
HN discussionThanks! There was definitely a lot of learning involved--I wrote up some here: https://craigjb.com/2019/12/04/gameslab-fails/ To be honest, I really don't know a good KiCad tutorial. I kind of just banged myself against it until I learned. But, I had previous experience with Eagle, Altium, and Cadence Allegro. Das U-Boot is the embedded bootloader and is pretty standard for embedded ARM systems (and others! https://…
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on “Show HN: Gameslab, a FPGA powered handheld game console”Submitted Rust on RISC-V (VexRiscv) on SpinalHDL with SymbiFlow on the Supercon Badge as a story · 59 points
HN discussionI built the Gameslab around this concept, but haven’t worked on it much lately. https://craigjb.com/2019/11/26/gameslab-overview/
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on “MiSTer, an open-source FPGA gaming project”Submitted Gameslab DIY FPGA-based handheld console (2019) as a story · 42 points
HN discussionI’ve started using SpinalHDL, https://github.com/SpinalHDL/SpinalHDL . It’s a Scala DSL that spits out Verilog or VHDL for traditional synthesis tools. But, unlike Chisel or MyHDL, in my opinion it’s a great experience. And, now it has seamless integration with Verilator for simulation, and the open-source Verilator project is very capable—they claim it beats commercial simulators: https://www.veripool.org/wiki/veri…
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on “Intel Shows Xeon Scalable Gold 6138P with Integrated FPGA, Shipping to Vendors”Submitted STM32L0 Rust Part 1 – Getting Started as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted SoundSlab: How It Started as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted SoundSlab: How It Started as a story · 1 points
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