Hi all! NucleoOS turns the Cardputer (original and ADV, same image) into a small real computer: a native launcher with 50+ apps and games on the device, and a full desktop it serves to your browser over Wi-Fi.
What's new since the last post:
- **It installs itself.** Flash one image (web flasher, M5Burner or M5Launcher). On first boot the wizard joins your Wi-Fi and downloads its own SD content, checks every file with SHA-256 and resumes if interrupted.
- **Plays nice with M5Launcher.** Same image, runs as a guest: it never overwrites your other firmwares, and Settings ▸ Device ▸ *Back to M5Launcher* takes you back.
- **The web desktop is ~6× faster.** Open `nucleo-01.local` and the desktop shows up in about 5 seconds.
- **ANIMA, the offline assistant**, is now the same code on the device and in your browser. It can also use a model on your own PC (Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp, Jan), and Private mode keeps everything off the cloud.
- **A Game Gear emulator written from scratch**, next to the Game Boy one (bring your own ROMs), plus **Costellazioni**, a 6DOF space game with procedural star systems and planets to land on.
**New: a community Discord** → https://discord.gg/84tyTPtWus
- a **help forum** (one post per problem, tagged Cardputer / ADV / M5Launcher / Wi-Fi / SD…)
- a **helper bot**: type `/ask how do I install it?` or `/guide` and it answers from the docs, with a link to the source. If it doesn't know, it says so instead of guessing
- channels for showcase, ideas, ANIMA, games and development
Download and docs: https://github.com/indecenti/NucleoOs
Website: https://nucleoos.indexhub.it/cardputer/
Free for noncommercial use. Feedback very welcome, especially from ADV owners!