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Homebrew Microcontroller Laptop, Made of Wood

Posted by timothy on from the logically-if-she's-made-of-wood dept.

Brietech writes "This is a homebrew laptop project based on a Picaxe microcontroller. It has 16kb of RAM, 256kb of storage, sound and a self-hosted development environment! It has a simple CLI, file-system, 'EMAXE' text editor and a programming language called 'Chris#.' Oh, and yes, it runs Linaxe."

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  1. Pretty fast! by CannonballHead · · Score: 4, Insightful

    CPU: Picaxe 28X-1 Microcontrollers. The main CPU runs at a blistering 16 Mhz, and has a whopping 4 kilobytes of onboard storage for the processorâ(TM)s firmware/OS.

    That's faster than my 11 or 12 MHz 286... of course, that was 17 years ago.

  2. Re:Now for something totally different... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What a total waste of time. Don't they have better things to do?

    He built a laptop with his time. All you've done is post a whiney comment on slashdot. On the whole, I think it's you who needs some better things to do with their time.