I Ran Photoshop on a £0.60 Computer Chip
colinprince · hn · 2026-08-21
The author attempts to run Photoshop on an RP2040 microcontroller chip costing only £0.60. The post details the implementation of this seemingly impossible task, including technical challenges, memory management strategies, and solutions for displaying the GUI, likely via VNC or similar methods. It is a fun engineering experiment exploring hardware limits and software compatibility.
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