32946335
submission
Brietech writes:
"Behold the FIBIAC! Its loud! It computes! It uses actual punch cards!" The FIBIAC is a simple, stepper-motor based, (mostly) 3D-printed electromechanical computer. The program is stored on a loop of paper punch-cards, and the machine uses three, 3-digit electromechanical counters for storage (which could be expanded to support more complicated programs) Watch it in action computing the Fibonacci sequence, or jump on Thingiverse and build your own!
3778925
submission
Brietech writes:
This is a homebrew laptop project based on a Picaxe microcontroller. It has 16kb of RAM, 256kb of storage, sound and a self-hosted development environment! It has a simple CLI, file-system, 'E-maxe' text editor and a programming language called "Chris#." Oh, and yes, it runs Linaxe =)
3494895
submission
Brietech writes:
Ever wanted to own your own supercomputer? This guy recreated a 31-processor SIMD Supercomputer from the early 1980's called the "Non-Von 1" in an FPGA. It uses a "Non-Von Neumann" architecture, and was intended for extremely fast database searches and artificial intelligence applications. Full-scale models were intended to have more than 1,000,000+ processors. It's a cool project for those interested in "alternative" computer architectures, and yes, full source code (Verilog) is available (along with a python library).
103212
submission
Brietech writes:
Ever felt like building your own laptop from (almost literally) scratch? This is a microcontroller-based "laptop" built from the ground up from a handful of chips and other hardware found lying around. It runs a self-hosted development environment, allowing the user to write and edit programs in "Chris++" on the machine, and then compile and run them. The carpentry looks like it could use some work, but it's a neat project!
