The Infinity Machine

Not that long ago you could run a spreadsheet, a word processor and a C compiler in 64K of memory on a 1 MHz, 8-bit 6809. Programming was simple and the apps ran fast. The Infinity Machine brings back that simplicity.

A digital playground and an engineering tool — integrated during manufacture, invisible until you want it. It runs custom apps inside the host, completely independently of the host operating system, yet still using the host’s resources: its screen, its storage, its connectivity.

Its host-independent overlay paints its own pixels alongside your normal work — a slice of the display, arbitrated by the Secure Processor, that the host can neither fake nor overwrite. And on laptops and other suitable devices it exposes GPIO pins to the outside, so sensors, actuators and custom hardware plug straight into a device you already carry.

It is a programmer’s delight for students — write in MicroPython or bare-metal C, on the same RP2350 that powers the Raspberry Pi Pico 2, with the whole maker ecosystem behind it. An open, documented machine living inside mainstream hardware — one device, infinite possibilities.

The walk-through below shows how it works, step by step.