Slexs
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Yes it can booted standalone: Lunars/tesla
$1200 is a bit overpriced if you ask me, you should be able to get one for half of that. Search ebay or contact salvage yards.
Thank you for clearing that up! I've visited that github page recently, but didn't see any clear answers to weather i could power up the MCU without the IC as i've heard there is a firmware compability check between them when it boots up.
The salvage yards here all charge $1500 for a MCU no matter its condition, so $1200 was at least a bit cheaper.
The cheapest one i could find on eBay was $799.99 + $67.65 shipping - add 25% import tax on that and we're up to $1085.
Not that big of a difference really.