One for Greg (maybe..)
Building the open source laptop: How one engineer turned the geek fantasy to reality
Summary: Every element of the Novena laptop will be open source. Its creator explains why he started the project and what it means for the future of hardware.
For decades anyone buying a new computer did so in the knowledge that within a few years it would be overtaken by a much faster machine.
Driving this rapid evolution has been Moore's Law  which has allowed the building block of information processing, the transistor  to be packed in greater numbers onto ever smaller computer chips.
But Moore's Law is slowing, as various engineering challenges have limited the rate at which transistors can be added to processors and this throttling back will increasingly provide an opening for the little guys to make their mark in the hardware world.
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Here are pix, bloggish stuff
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(Realize you're printing-up tangible-Stuff these days.. but ya gotta use that 454A for Something, no?)
Not my cup o'tea, natch.. though the Spec An add-in might once have enticed--back when we were training EES.. and there were buggy-whips for the surrey.
FPGA--roll yer own Anything!
Bon appetít
