The project is called “Tactility” and its website is https://tactility.one/
You can run ELF binary apps directly from an SD card without restarting or flashing the ROM. There’s an SDK for building these apps, but I haven’t made an official release yet.
I wrote a blog post with some background information: https://bytewelder.com/posts/2025/01/06/tactility-one-year-later.html
Source code and project files: https://github.com/ByteWelder/Tactility
Looks cool, but what should I look to do with it?
In its current state, it’s mainly a tool for developers to be able to build prototypes or experiments quickly. From a user perspective, there isn’t enough yet. We’ll need more apps before it’s useful for end-users. I want to improve the core functionality before I build more apps: I already have to maintain about 2 dozen apps and I’d rather spend my time on building a better platform for now.
I cross posted this to !esp32@lemmy.ml
Thanks! Good to see there’s an ESP32 community too. I just subscribed ^^
My friend runs a similar project in Rust, focusing on running wasm-compiled programs
very cool! lots of neat other projects too
I just picked up one of those lily go systems and am excited
You can find some builds at the bottom of the page here (edit: when logged in) : https://github.com/ByteWelder/Tactility/actions/runs/12659191949 These files expire in 30 days though.
Looks cool! However, there is with badge.team also a similar app platform which they used on https://flow3r.garden/, on the MCH22-badge and the now in preorder namatsu: https://shop.nicolaielectronics.nl/products/tanmatsu?variant=55608856183133 (which I just ordered two of)
While it definitely is a cool project, it’s a micropython one, so the target audience is similar but not the same.
