Unbelievably impressive. Such a wide breadth of skills and expertise needed to pull this off. And the final product looks great! Kudos to you!
Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch
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#222Earlier quoted context omitted.
Probably not a lot, kids who have the grit to work on projects like this are the ones most likely to succeed academically
I disagree; I did similar projects like this in high school (not exactly like this; his is a true achievement). I did very well grade-wise and had a high GPA but I bombed the SAT because I didn’t understand that you didn’t lose the same number of points for questions you skipped. So the ones I didn’t have time to answer I just randomly selected, which resulted in a poor score. I found out later: 1. How SAT scoring wo…
Thankfully, the SAT no longer deducts points for wrong answers. But I agree, there's a big difference between testing and doing really great work.
I'm somewhat on the other end of this, where I excelled in school, graduated valedictorian, but didn't gain any meaningful experience with projects and such and had poor leadership skills all around.
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#223For 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!
And money for parts and tools :-)
Also many in high school (at least here i Denmark) have jobs after school.
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#224Earlier quoted context omitted.
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!
Yeah I did some crazy things when I was in school. Had so much time.
We all had time... Almost none of us built a laptop
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#225Earlier quoted context omitted.
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!
Yeah, that's a given. Everyone has only 24h of time per day. And everyone has different struggles. This is an incredible achievement. And i really don't like, that your comment invited other people to jump onboard & comment in a way belittling the achievements– even if just implicitly, to make themselves feel better why a high-schooler is doing things like that. If all that was really the main driver, HN frontpage sh…
I'm not saying this in a negative way - but priorities shift in life (unfortunately).
I wish I had the time that I had back when I was in high school. The time part doesn't have anything to do with the skills though. At that age I would have never been able to do a similar thing - at my age I would probably struggle, but with enough time at hand I might achieve half of the project.
This is what makes this whole thing exceptional: this person is very talented and is using his free time to do great things - I appreciate that.
If my initial comment sounded like I was bragging I would do it too if I had more free time, it wasn't my intention. I actually am jealous that I get to spend less time on my side projects and I envy those who can build such cool stuff.
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#226Okay, I'll help him humble brag: Bryan is in his last year of high school. Keep building!
You study quantum mechanics in High School in the USA?
The USA has some great schools. OP goes to Phillips Exeter Academy, which is an exclusive private school that ranks among the best high schools in the country.
Re: Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch
#227For 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.
Not just any high school. https://exeter.edu/
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#228While this is impressive, how come you can't make your website scroll without stutter?
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#229Heck of a high school senior project, my hat's off to you.
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#230Thanks to the work of the community the RK3588 is also on the right track regarding mainline support, severly reducing the fear of turning into unmaintained kernel hell. https://gitlab.collabora.com/hardware-enablement/rockchip-35...