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Hackaday just did a writeup about my homebrew computer! What a nice birthday present. https://hackaday.com/2023/03/06/low-power-challenge-the-potatop-runs-lisp-for-months-without-recharging/

Low Power Challenge: The PotatoP Runs Lisp For Months Without Recharging

A common complaint among laptop users is that while battery technology has vastly improved over the past decades, a simulltaneous shrink in form factors has meant that a typical laptop today doesn&…
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Andy Alderwick
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It's a beauty! I was admiring it earlier, then I just found your toot in the federated timeline!

Happy Birthday too! ✨
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Andy Alderwick
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Wow, it's even inspired a column from one of the editors!

“I really like the motivation and sentiment behind @andreer's PotatoP. This is a small microcomputer that's built on a commonly available microcontroller, so it's not a particularly powerful beast—hence the ‘potato’. But what makes up for that in my mind is that it's running a rudimentary bare-metal OS of his own writing. It's like he's taken the cyberdeck's DIY aesthetic into the software as well.”

https://hackaday.com/2023/03/11/computers-for-fun/

Computers For Fun

The last couple years have seen an incredible flourishing of the cyberdeck scene, and probably for about as many reasons as there are individual ’deck designs. Some people get really into the prop-…
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