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<li><a href="posts/stripe_sessions_2025/index.html">Project Lifeblood! (2025-04-21)</a></li>
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<li><a href="posts/introducing_asklyphe/index.html">Introducing askLyphe! (2024-09-05)</a></li>
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<li><a href="posts/company_update_july_2024/index.html">Company Update July 2024 (2024-07-29)</a></li>
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<li><a href="posts/btrees_and_refactoring/index.html">B-Trees and Refactoring: Week 4 of VoreStation Development (2023-09-10)</a></li>
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<title>vore microcomputers development blog - Project Lifeblood, and Stripe Sessions 2025</title>
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<a href="/"><img src="/assets/logo_typeset.svg" alt="vore microcomputers logo"/></a>
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<h1>Project Lifeblood!</h1>
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<h3>also Stripe Sessions 2025!</h3>
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<h5>2025-04-21</h5>
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<h4>written by Niko Viau-Chow-Stuart (Founder)</h4>
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<img src="/blog/posts/stripe_sessions_2025/lifeblood%201.png" alt="drawing of the vore microcomputers mascot holding a lifeblood board."/>
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<p>
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hello vorers! if you've been following the askLyphe development closely (i.e. on our
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<a href="https://discord.gg/r3deP9cA4p">discord server</a>),
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you may have noticed that we've been a bit silent for the last week or two.
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this is because for the last few weeks, we've been working on a very secret project which i'm very excited
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to announce!
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<h2>Project Lifeblood</h2>
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<img src="/blog/posts/stripe_sessions_2025/lifeblood%20dev%20board.png" alt="3d rendering of the lifeblood pcb board (without soldered components)."/>
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<p>
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lifeblood is a very small pcb computer, about the size of a business card, with a usb-c jack that provides
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power and exposes the operating system as a serial device!
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<br>
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it uses a very limited risc v microcontroller with only around 10kib of RAM, and runs a very minimal
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multitasking operating system that we call "lifebloodOS",
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and because of these imposed limitations, components alone cost just under $1 per board!
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<p>
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you may be wondering why we've made such a limited and basic computer, and that's for a very simple reason:
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<strong>
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we will be using lifeblood computers as business cards!
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for 2025, we were invited to Stripe Sessions, a technology conference run by Stripe (our payment processor),
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that normally costs like $600 to attend. (which means, yes if you somehow have $600 to spare and live in the
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San Francisco Bay Area,
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you can meet us!)
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we figured that we might as well use this chance to have some fun, and since we don't have any business
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cards,
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we figured we could have some fun with those! (:
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<p>
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if anyone reading this is somehow actually also going to this random tech conference, then we'll be giving
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away these lifeblood-based business cards for as long as we have any left!
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<strong>
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however, if you aren't going then we also plan to sell lifeblood boards on our website!
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</strong>
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we plan to hopefully sell them for around $5 a piece,
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although this price may change depending on component cost changes due to the stupid fucking tariffs that
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are being applied to the US.
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of course, once they're released to the public, we'll also be open sourcing everything from the pcb designs
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to the operating system,
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so if you don't want to pay us then you can also build your own from scratch! :D
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<p>
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more details about both the board and the operating system will be announced closer to the planned
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release date of May 6, so stay tuned!
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</p>
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<h2>askLyphe updates</h2>
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although this project has taken up quite a bit of our time, we definitely haven't abandoned askLyphe!
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<p>
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we're still working hard to get askLyphe to a state in which we can release a public beta, and internally
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we use askLyphe as our main search engine! for those who have private beta access, we'll still be
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maintaining the private servers, and making sure that any downtime is as short as possible.
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</p>
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<p>
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as always, feel free to support us on liberapay if you like what we do! we're incredibly thankful for
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everyone who has donated so far, and as such <strong>we plan to send anyone who has donated before may 6 a
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free lifeblood board if you email us!</strong>
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as always, thanks for reading and happy voring! :3
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<br>contact us at <a href="mailto:nikocs@voremicrocomputers.com">nikocs@voremicrocomputers.com</a> <a
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