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DIY Laptop
Brietech writes "Ever felt like building your own laptop from (almost literally) scratch? This is a microcontroller-based "laptop" built from the ground up from a handful of chips and other hardware found lying around. It runs a self-hosted development environment, allowing the user to write and edit programs in "Chris++" on the machine, and then compile and run them. The carpentry looks like it could use some work, but it's a neat project!"
Hope he doesn't use Sony Batteries. That sucker looks like it could catch on fire.
God spoke to me.
So easy, even a cave man could do it!
"He's lost in a 'floyd hole"
I'm sure Chris# will be a much more full-featured language. You should have seen the original Chris language; that was a monster to work with.
Don't blame me; I'm never given mod points.
It's sort of like when a friend or relative introduces you to their new baby and you wonder how they managed to get that giant head on that thing, only you can't really say that without hurting their feelings because everyone thinks their baby is the most beautiful one ever. In reality it's just a baby and some of them are not all that attractive, especially to people who don't have or want kids. Which the preface to my comment about that laptop: I'm sorry, but that's just one butt ugly computer.
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
Don't worry the rest of the tree was use for credit card applications, AOL CD mailers and other fine publications.
"I don't necessarily agree with everything I say." - Marshall McLuhan
I once developed my own language called SQUAT - just some higher level functions, basic I/O and a STDIN/STDOUT thang.
Mainly I wanted to be able to tell people that I know SQUAT.
You can't talk about Wikipedia's flaws on Wikipedia
He used premade components like chips and LCD displays. That's hardly building a laptop from scratch.
Building a laptop from scratch :
Step 1: You're going to need some Silicon. A lot of people would say "Just melt some rock" at this point. But that pre-supposes the existence of ready made rock, which would be cheating. So first we're going to induce a supernova in a suitable star.
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Step 51,985: You need some plastic. Plastic is made from oil. Scour one of the planets you created in Steps 9 - 23,492 for aquatic micro-organisms. Once you've found a sufficient quantity of the little bastards, you're going to need to crush them hard. No, really hard. Now leave to stand for around 250 million years.
Etc....