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The Tamagochi Singularity Made Real: Infinite Tamagochi Living On the Internet (hackaday.com)
szczys writes: Everyone loves Tamagochi, the little electronic keychains spawned in the '90s that let you raise digital pets. Some time ago, XKCD made a quip about an internet-based matrix of thousands of these digital entities. That quip is now a reality thanks to elite hardware hacker Jeroen Domburg (aka Sprite_TM). In his recent talk called "The Tamagochi Singularity" at the Hackaday SuperConference he revealed that he had built an infinite network of virtual Tamagochi by implementing the original hardware as a virtual machine. This included developing AI to keep them happy, and developing a protocol to emulate their IR interactions. But he went even further, hacking an original keychain to use wirelessly as a console which can look in on any of the virtual Tamagochi living on his underground network. This full-stack process is unparalleled in just about every facet: complexity, speed of implementation, awesome factor, and will surely spark legions of other Tamagochi Matrices.
"Everyone" is kind of like the "infinite" part, where "infinity" and 13 have the same value. Extrapolate from there.
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Here, over here! I am Impressed by this.
You know how it is soo difficult to find a good idea for your hobby programing project?
This guy has ideas man. I am so envious. He knows how to waste time for good.