DIY Laptop 178
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!"
right.... (Score:2, Insightful)
hahah (Score:0, Insightful)
How about some real project postings, not some crappy pic chip with a serial eeprom and hitachi display.. 4 months? I've seen 8 graders hack that together in 4 hours.
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I thought it was rather good. (Score:5, Insightful)
I had a dream (Score:5, Insightful)
So why can't there be an industry standard of handheld electronics building blocks? Instead of an iPod, how about an IMod? A cpu block that you can tack on a battery, lens, HD or CF, and headphone amp. Then you create the driving application in some sort of 90's AmigaVision drag-and-drop metaphor.
Why is it in 2007 there still is such a thing as a seperate cell phone, walkman, camera, and you need a 14 year-old with a PhD to try to get a file from one device to the other?
Cut him some slack already... (Score:5, Insightful)
Stripping a computer back to its bare essentials is an art. Real hot rods don't have air conditioning. Real computers don't need 3GHz CPUs, 2GB of RAM, and a 500 watt power supply to present an interactive user interface.
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Neat (Score:5, Insightful)
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I don't think any of the gadget makers have any interest in a true all in one device. They would make tons of money at first but what happens when most people have a great all in one device? Sales will fall and a new model won't help too much since the last one already did everything and well. Let's say Sony makes the super PDA/Phone/Video-Still Camera/Storage device. Since Sony already makes things in most of these categories they are severally limiting themselves in what you would normally spend. They could really only charge around $200-$300 to make the device feasible for most people and that price still alienates a large part of consumers just in the US. Considering most people would normally spend that on just a camera you can see how much money they lose on a true universal gadget. I stand by the the reasoning that we don't have truly universal gadgets is because of the almighty dollar. This is of course my humble opinion and I admit that some company might have such a device in the works. I just hope it's not Sony I would prefer my dream gadget not burst into flames.