i'm playing around with your onshape document and learning a lot of things for my own projects. thanks! (also, amazing work of course)
Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch
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#152Dear @Lenovo
Please hire this guy to help you make the thinkpad's keyboard to do wireless magic with the trackpoint and the mouse buttons include. Thanks
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#153For those that missed it, this Engineer is in _high school_. Byran, I have been a professional engineer longer than you have been alive, I can tell you right now that I have met very, very few people that would have the motivation, skill and sticktoitivness to pull this off.
And the time. Don't underestimate the amount of free time people have when they're in high school (vs when you have a family / intense job).
Having said that, even with unlimited time this is such an awesome achievement and really shows the dedication. Well done!
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#154Anyone know the amount of RAM available for the laptop? Personally I'm a bit disappointed that it's based on Rockchip. If someone can come up with low cost open source laptop with RPi compute module 5 with 16GB RAM I think it will selling like hot cakes given the software and hardware eco-system that exist round RPi [1]. It just that the compute module has yet to come with 16GB RAM unlike the normal RPi 5 but it will…
No hardware sell like hot cakes relative to the pain and cost incurred.
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#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have the R&D BOM in a link below [1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17arbJvPqW6koqEJwAzne... Thanks.
Thank you! For anyone else looking for the top line number, it's $4,673.81. Really nice work. I wish you much success in life.
"NOTE: THIS IS R&D total cost. The DIY price should be less than $1500"
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#156FYI, none of my engineer friends in the U.S. can pull this off. This is truly impressive.
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#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think my laptops have been split between mechanical and hardware EOL. I don't think the mechanicals would ever go for two lifetimes. But I actually take mine around places and am a little clumsy.
Mechanical what? The keys? There are people who have had the same keyboard for 30 years. You don't have to design things to be disposable junk. That's even part of the advantage. If you want a higher quality chassis made of rubber-padded metal that can survive being dropped off a table then you'd only have to buy it once.
No one personally buys a Toughbook new for home use.
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#158If you can do something like this, then you'd be great at Factorio! :) On a less joking note, I wonder if I'm decent at Factorio, I could learn this.
not only that, you can use this laptop to _play_ factorio!
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#159This is what we come here for!
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#160OP you are incredibly talented. I believe very few people on earth could do something like that at your age and deliver. Congratulations !