Some time ago, XKCD, an online comic, released a comic called ‘Tamagotchi Hive’: I happened to be at a time of my life where I wanted to take on a new project to do, but didn’t have any access to my normal hardware tinkering tools: I only had my laptop and the Internet. I knew that a hacker called Natalie Silvanovich already managed to reverse engineer the Tamagotchi and dump the internal ROM. In the meanwhile, the datasheet for the microcontroller running the show also became available on the Internet, allowing me to make a rudimentary but functional Tamagotchi emulator. I added some state-machine-based 'artificial intelligence’ to it to keep the Tamas alive and happy, and some logic to make them able to communicate with eachother and a webserver. The end result is the website you’re looking at.
