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Show HN: TinyCity – A tiny city SIM for MicroPython (Thumby micro console)

104 pointsby inflam52today at 2:11 PM18 commentsview on HN

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JKCalhountoday at 8:15 PM

Is it using the 1.3-inch monochrome OLED display of the Arduboy or something smaller? (Guessing the 72 × 40 display of the Thumby?)

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_joeltoday at 4:31 PM

I hope it "Reticulates Tiny Splines" (good work btw)

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allanrbotoday at 4:30 PM

SIM=subscriber identity module. sim=simulator. :-)

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gaudysteadtoday at 4:58 PM

I literally JUST bought a Thumby out of a vending machine this past weekend, so this post feels a bit serendipitous for me. Thanks for sharing, and I'll have to check this out!

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Tiberiumtoday at 4:45 PM

Small bug: the sim seems to double count residential population for taxes, industrial pop gets ignored. The duplicate logic seems to exist in UI but it's correct there.

Also I wonder if all the repetition could be reduced, or would it affect performance on MicroPython?

https://github.com/chrisdiana/TinyCity/blob/88d07cf98f13bb73...

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coldcity_againtoday at 6:13 PM

Looks super cool, nice job!

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hei-limatoday at 4:30 PM

Really cool!

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bowlcutWiztoday at 6:26 PM

looks awesome! can't wait to try the online version :)

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tinfoilhattertoday at 3:10 PM

Looks neat! Great job!

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