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Author here - the reason is pretty underwhelming: These are the parts I had on hand when I decided to start on the project. Using a chip with a builtin Ethernet peripheral would definitely make more sense (though I'd be trading any complexity of configuring the W5100 for the complexity of configuring STs peripheral). The networking code already abstract the actual chip itself into a driver interface (think read/write/ioctl), so porting the code would be pretty straightforward.

I'll look into the STM32F407 for the main series. Thanks

If you can only capture 60FPS, you cannot accurate measure a signal of 40Hz, since it is below the Nyquist frequency. (I know you mentioned the slow-mo camera which probably does have the bandwidth).

This is a very first-world opinion. Low-end (second hand) smartphones are some of the only available computing devices available for a large part of the world.

> There's something more constricting about there being one function to bootstrap everything than there is about one file.

The trickiest thing is that main() is not even the bootstrap function. The actual entry point of a program is usually generated by libc, and is called generally called _start (though it can be anything).

> ...remote biometric identification systems in publicly accessible spaces, biometric categorisation systems (e.g. categorizing by gender, race, ethnicity, citizenship status, religion, political orientation) and the use of AI for predictive policing.

> AI systems which can influence voters in political campaigns and by use of suggestion systems on very large platforms...

> New transparency and risk assessment requirements for providers of (generative) foundation models like GTP.

> Clarified exemptions for research.

Putting these kinds of restrictions in place is absolutely a good thing. While they might not get everything right, this is a step in the right direction. Our laws and understanding as a society has been lagging behind technological development for decades now. That fact has enabled a large amount of exploitation to take place, which has (in the last decade especially) had a large hand in massively undermining our democracies.

This is the most use that board has and would have gotten in the last 10+ years. I like to think it laying down its FTDI chip for a greater cause was an honour for it.