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VERY impressive. the laptop looks great. wish you could manufacture and sell the thing, i'd consider one :)
Sick! Finally someone posting something that puts the “hacker” in HN. Love the parts research you did.
well done, thanks for documenting and congratulations on completing the project!
This is fantastic! I hope to follow in your footsteps as soon as a decent RISC-V board can supplant that RK3588.
There are some obvious next steps for improving the polish on this, would you say you were more resource constrained, time constrained, or skill constrained?
For instance, did you put any thought into making flex PCBs to make the cable routing easier?
I also think the concept of a laptop with a removable wireless keyboard is brilliant, and I think your implementation is a lot cleaner than e.g. the Surface or the iPad's case-keyboards. If I had a laptop that did that, it would be my go-to travel machine. One less thing to cart around.
This is really cool! There are some obvious next steps for improving the polish on this, would you say you were more resource constrained, time constrained, or skill constrained? For instance, did you put any thought into making flex PCBs to make the cable routing easier? I also think the concept of a laptop with a removable wireless keyboard is brilliant, and I think your implementation is a lot cleaner than e.g. th…
I'm honored that you think my keyboard implementation is nice! I put a lot of thought into it — truly. Oh btw the keyboard works just as well as a solo device. I've used the keyboard more than the computer in some ways. Thanks!
Okay, I'll help him humble brag: Bryan is in his last year of high school. Keep building!