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DIY Laptop

Posted by Hemos on from the from-the-ground-up dept.

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!"

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  1. Re:right.... by Noginbump · · Score: 3, Informative

    It is a laptop computer, not a laptop PC.

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  2. Re:I had a dream by oblivionboy · · Score: 1, Informative

    Its the "grumpy old man" post on slashdot. Haven't seen one of these for a while. .o.

  3. Good job by chord.wav · · Score: 2, Informative

    Seems like afrotech has some serious competition
    http://www.afrotechmods.com/

  4. Re:right.... by fireboy1919 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Entry level boards from both Xilinx and Altera run about $50. Personally, I think it's worth it to spring for the $200 models since you get all kinds of useful things already on it (like RAM), but the $50 ones are out there. Here's some examples.

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