Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch

#81

Post by xarope » Thu, Jan 23, 2025, 3:14 AM UTC

Wow this is fantastic, great job! I hope this heralds a new era of HW engineering.

P.S. @Hello9999901 any relation to "Bunnie" Huang?

Re: Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch

#82

Post by webprofusion » Thu, Jan 23, 2025, 3:16 AM UTC

This is what the internet was invented for.

Re: Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch

#83

Post by stuckkeys » Thu, Jan 23, 2025, 3:32 AM UTC

Holly crap. This man is the messiah of tech. Keep going my guy. That is so impressive. I look forward to what you do next.

Re: Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch

#84

Post by reactordev » Thu, Jan 23, 2025, 3:33 AM UTC

Man!! This is sooo impressive. I did a little research on making my own motherboard (not even for a laptop) and didn’t get anywhere nearly as far.

I just want to throw money at you! We need an open source laptop!!

Re: Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch

#85

Post by eviks » Thu, Jan 23, 2025, 3:34 AM UTC

Have you thought about finally adding a split ergonomic keyboard to a laptop instead of the standard slab?

Re: Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch

#86

Post by noisy_boy » Thu, Jan 23, 2025, 3:35 AM UTC

Framework team, hire this guy, when it's legal :)

Re: Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch

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Post by dataflow » Thu, Jan 23, 2025, 3:40 AM UTC

This is crazy. Hats off to you. My guess is you'll have recruiters knocking on your door yesterday, trying to grab you before the next one does. Whatever you do, don't let your talents go to waste (corporations can do that), and think about your long term success, not whatever they dangle in front of you for the short term. You're going places.

Re: Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch

#88

Post by amatecha » Thu, Jan 23, 2025, 3:41 AM UTC

noisy_boy wrote: post #86

Framework team, hire this guy, when it's legal :)

More suited to working with MNT Research[0] which makes actual certified open source hardware[1] :)

[0] https://mntre.com/reform.html

[1] https://certification.oshwa.org/de000017.html

Re: Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch

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Post by byran » Thu, Jan 23, 2025, 3:41 AM UTC

MegaDeKay wrote: post #78

byran wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you so much! For certain; goodness without knowledge is weak and feeble and knowledge without goodness is dangerous. It was a truly difficult undertaking! I was ready to quit at so many moments, but I always think about the final mission of sharing this little piece of knowledge with the world. :)

My hat is off to you, good sir. Way off. This is an unbelievable accomplishment, doubly so given that you're still in high school (!!!), triple-so given the time you did it in, quadruple-so given that you did it all yourself, etc etc etc. I was reading this over thinking "this guy should be working for Framework". It would be a total win-win.

Thank you so much! I'm currently working for Keychron!

Re: Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch

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Post by byran » Thu, Jan 23, 2025, 3:42 AM UTC

reactordev wrote: post #84

Man!! This is sooo impressive. I did a little research on making my own motherboard (not even for a laptop) and didn’t get anywhere nearly as far. I just want to throw money at you! We need an open source laptop!!

Thank you!! After schooling is done :)