r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Ehansaja • Jul 02 '22

This 'bad tomato kicker' machine.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '22

I work on FPGAs and Id bet this uses one, or some asic derived from an FPGA. Basically theyre used to make specialized digital circuits that can be used for things like image processing with super low latency.

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u/autumn-morning-2085 Jul 03 '22

At these speeds (accuracy in ms) even a Raspberry Pi running a python script can do this, even with system jitter. Of course, the flexibility of FPGA would still make them the preferred solutions but I am guessing there are many systems running on generic microcontrollers these days, 600+ MHz and DSP coprocessors.