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title: Project Ideas
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bootlicker
2018-02-25T23:16:13+00:00
I have a lot of project ideas. I've been coming up with them faster than
I can write them down. I'm sitting here at the bus stop with 10 minutes
to kill, so I figured I'd finally make the time to write all these
things down.
Some of these ideas are simple, and may only take a couple months to
finish, whereas some projects may take a very very long time to achieve.
Here we go:
- Develop a philosophy of practical computing. Simple, repairable
computers that do not spy, are built with open hardware, and are
easy to understand and repair. You do not need a lot of transistors
to do word processing, for instance. Usenet and Bulletin Board
Systems are sufficient for most social communication. The World Wide
Web and HTTP are terrible.
- Develop a practical 8 or 16 bit computer that is useful and easy to
repair.
- Make a Commane Line Interface mobile phone.
- Investigate how to make your own internet network (Satellite? HAM
radio? Some other radio spectrum? Use the voice mobile phone network
and use audio and encrypt?)
- Contribute to the GNU search/construction of a micro kernel.
- Buy a Commodore 64, or similar 8 bit computer, and refurbish
- Develop own C64 software compatible micro computer out of TTL chips
- Develop discrete transistor computer
- Set up computer recycling service
- Learn Ada
- Develop a new NNTP program with all the modern security trappings
- Learn about jobd
- If not possible to make C64 hardware compatible TTL chip computer,
write an emulator for it
- Learn how to fabricate my own integrated circuits
- Manufacture my own transistors
- Finish my PhD
- Get a job as an academic
- Get a car
- Relearn Japanese, and learn Spanish and Mandarin
- Finish my Atari 2600 game
- Buy the Shadowrun Core Rulebook
- Build my own laptop with a Single Board Computer
- Finish my Distraction Free Writing Machine project
- Build a relay computer, and program it to play Noughts and Crosses,
maybe other games
- Finish learning about transistor amplifiers
- Build a RISC V CPU with an FPGA
- Investigate that project that runs BSD on a PIC microcontroller
- Buy a mechanical keyboard
- Buy a CRT monitor
- Write up how to substantially get a KDE install of arch linux
working (sound card, networking, USB permissions)
That is all I can think of!