On December 1, 2016 3:49:58 PM EST, juan <juan.g71@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, 01 Dec 2016 20:28:12 +0000 oshwm <oshwm@openmailbox.org> wrote:
Just to add to the discussion if we're busy justifying our existence to the whiners...
A while back there was an active discussion of open source hardware and 'openfabs' (I took part in that too). But more recently (although not quite meeting the openfab ideal) a cool little piece of open source hardware appeared based on the RISC V instruction set...
Feel free to discuss, whiners are invited too :P
https://www.crowdsupply.com/onchip/open-v
http://www.onchipuis.io/index.html
these people are from colombia. That's...unexpected =)
The problem with all the open source IC stuff open fabs etc is, as I understand it, it's dogshit slow compared to our unvetted back doored Intel & friends. But, surely it's the future (if there is a future). As printers get better and better... democratization of the silicon. Anyone will be able to fab up whatever shit they need at home or at shop down the road. Gibson's the Peripheral has an interesting near future like this. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.