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A fingernail vs a moon lander

Small microcontroller chips, modern laptops/desktops - the range of computing power is enormous nowadays. So enormous, that it can be pretty hard to grasp the magnitude. This week, I’m going to do some explorations, using a HY-Tiny board with an STM32F103 on it. Or to be put it differently: a fairly low-end but popular 32-bit ARM Cortex M3 µC, running at 72 MHz, with 128 KB flash and 20 KB RAM.

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