Holy fuck People like Byran live amongst us Making their own laptops but from SCRATCH Imagine how good this man’s pasta carbonara tastes
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Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch
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#12Holy hell. This is so cool ~ an admirer
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#13nice work!
how much was it to get the case milled?
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#14nice work! how much was it to get the case milled?
Thanks! Around $300 total from JLCCNC with 6061 aluminum, bead blasting, and matte black anodization (top, midplate, bottom).
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#15well done, thanks for documenting and congratulations on completing the project!
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#16Very nice. Wish there were faster SOMs than the 3588 but maybe in a year or two.
Looks like an MIT admissions portfolio project. Don’t know if it fits the uniqueness category for it but I guess the quality of the end product makes it good enough.
Admittedly this isn’t fully open source like the Novena or the Reform but I doubt adcomms care. I just wish I was rich enough and skilled enough to be able to spend $4.5k on a neat project like this.
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#17Sick! Finally someone posting something that puts the “hacker” in HN.
Love the parts research you did.
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#18VERY impressive. the laptop looks great. wish you could manufacture and sell the thing, i'd consider one :)
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#19Okay, I'll help him humble brag:
Bryan is in his last year of high school.
Keep building!
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#20Very nice. Wish there were faster SOMs than the 3588 but maybe in a year or two. Looks like an MIT admissions portfolio project. Don’t know if it fits the uniqueness category for it but I guess the quality of the end product makes it good enough. Admittedly this isn’t fully open source like the Novena or the Reform but I doubt adcomms care. I just wish I was rich enough and skilled enough to be able to spend $4.5k on…
Thanks for your suggestions and criticism! Much appreciated. Which aspect of it (aside from the SoM, which I admittedly do not have the R&D to make in this timescale) isn't open-source? I'd love to hear your thoughts. The Novena and Reform are amazing pieces of engineering, but I believe they sacrifice the portability and looks for repairability which some people certainly prefer. I wanted to aim for something that a non-technical consumer might look and say "hmm, nice laptop!" and not think it came out of the matrix or built it myself.
In terms of college, still waiting :)