I decided to build a nine-bit computer
Regarding the interesting bit (to me) in there about the advantages of FPGAs over an SBC like the Pi (speed)- does anybody know of any blogs or projects where an FPGA's speed <i>helped</i> in a hobby project where software running on an SBC wasn't fast enough? I can <i>imagine</i> a few, mostly real-time projects involving expensive computations (image or pattern recognition maybe?), but I would love to see some concrete examples.