Building my Own Laptop
We are building an open laptop, with some wacky features in it for hackers like me.
Another contribution from FETguy and Renew Computers ! I found this board to be interesting mainly because I always wondered how these things worked . The construction reveals a trick which ended up as a surprise, at least to me!
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We are building an open laptop, with some wacky features in it for hackers like me.
Cari with the Institute Blinky Badge at Burning Man 2015. Photo credit: Nagutron.
So this past week has been quite a whirlwind — we wrapped up the Novena campaign and smashed all our stretch goals, concluding with over $700k raised , and I got my hair cut in a bar at midnight by none other than the skilled hands of Lenore of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories ( I blame Jake ! :). It was an…
I once heard a saying – “Don’t feel pity on plants because they can’t move. Feel pity on us, because we have to”. I really didn’t have an appreciation for what this meant until the COVID pandemic hit, which restricted my movement for a couple of years, and I decided to spend some of my new-found time at home learning…
Breaking my knee this year was a difficult experience, but I did learn a lot from it . I now know more than I ever wanted to know about the anatomy of my knee and how the muscles work together to create the miracle of bipedal locomotion, and more importantly, I now know more about pain.
Recently, Akiba took me to visit his friend’s zipper factory. I love visiting factories: no matter how simple the product, I learn something new.