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Comment · 5 years ago
I’m working on an open source 3D printed vacuum cleaner robot:

https://github.com/CodileAB https://www.instagram.com/wolley.xyz/

I’ve been working with it on and off for two years now and hopefully it can soon actually vacuum my floors :-)

Comment · 9 years ago
Yes, the container tabs are really nice if you want to make tracking harder for advertisers, LinkedIn etc.
Comment · 9 years ago
I like the name, it means "Pictures" in Swedish. Is that intended?
Comment · 9 years ago
Five years ago, I would have recommended AlphaMail, a service me and some others were building. However, it does no longer exists...
Comment · 9 years ago
I totally agree! That is how I did it :-)
Comment · 9 years ago
I had the N9 with MeeGo, best OS for phones I have ever used. Also very beautiful and easy to use.
Comment · 9 years ago
I was just about to mention Digital Ocean. Very simple and easy, but MySQL is eating all my available memory...
Comment · 9 years ago
I see that it could be true for many desktop and mobile phone applications but who should develop the operating systems, embedded applications and backends? It is a full time job just to learn all the programming languages, libraries, frameworks, standards, protocols and other related things.
Comment · 9 years ago
Well, typing is more of a motorical skill than programming. Almost everyone can learn to drive a car (manual gearbox) but the same could not be said for programming where problem solving, logic and intelligence is a must.

But with that being said, people from other professions could still learn how to program and do it well.

Maybe you think of a programmer as person that is just typing in the program designed by someone else, a developer, in a specific language with a specific syntax?

Comment · 9 years ago
Do you mean the text? I was writing the text for me, as some kind of project log. Actually, I found a couple of errors in the design while writing which I wouldn't have found if I haven't written the text.

The text may only be interesting for people building or thinking about building a retro microcomputer.

Comment · 9 years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
Sound like you have the right mindset ;-) The most boring part of the project was routing of all the bus lines in KiCad, but I knew that if a kept on working, the reward would be big :-)

I was actually planning to do a ROM emulator with a PIC MCU at first, but ended up using a regular EPROM, SIO/UART and a bootloader to load programs via RS232. When I had a stable program, I burned it to the ROM and continued. This is because when I got started with the "test circuit" I didn't want to go back to the PIC :-D

I'm currently developing my ROM monitor so that I can get CP/M running :-)

Comment · 9 years ago
Yes :-)

Five PCBs cost me $250, but they can be made cheaper. Otherwise the price depends a lot on the components. Ceramic ones are very expensive and the whole computer would probably end up at around $300 - $400. For plastic components, the price would be more close to $200.

Comment · 9 years ago
Sounds great :-) Only problem is the "not-so-great" keyboard :-/

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