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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:I thought it was rather good. by Calinous · · Score: 3, Interesting

    an OS in 96 bytes of RAM? Bring it on!

  2. More DIY Laptops by wehe · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There is an interesting overview of guides to make a do-it-yourself laptop at Repair4Laptop. If you don't want to build it completely from scratch you can consider to make it as a so-called barebone or white box laptop. Barebones are also featured in a separate section of the overview.

  3. Re:right.... by fireboy1919 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A $50 FPGA can be made to work as a 256 color VGA driver (or any size lcd controller you like), and you can easily get it to accept PS/2 input from a keyboard.

    Then you pick your poison for processors, coprocessors, etc - as long as it fits on the FPGA.

    You have lots of options.

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