Hi Everyone,

tldr: Reviving the hardware group on Matrix with a focus on RISC-V and prototyping for fun.

Lately I’ve found myself wanting to study in a group setting, as it’s easier to absorb topics when there is a friendly cohort chugging along together.

The topics I want to cover are comprehensive involving hardware, design, and software.

So that the group benefits from others’ expertise/special interests…

If you are interested, send me a DM, or post in this forum what you would like to see/teach in a small group of 5-10 individuals.

The greater goal is to design a piece of computer hardware together. I am thinking we could work on a RISC-V Core and maybe a board just as a group hobby project.

Cheers,

-G

  • smq@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 day ago

    wow! this sounds cool and I’m definitely interested, but I don’t know anything except basic physics and programming. and also I may not be that active because school is trying to murder me. can I still join?

    • gronjo45@lemm.eeOP
      3·
      9 days ago

      I’d be interested in making a design file for a chip capable of radiating an RF frequency… Isn’t a NIC a subtype of this device classification?

    • gronjo45@lemm.eeOP
      1·
      9 days ago

      That would be great, after introductions I think we should create a roadmap of some basic parts that we would need…

      I’m not too savvy on what we can already use that currently exists in the RISC-V ecosystem. My vision for our group would be to stick to as close to open sourcing everything as humanely possible.

      Because one of our goals is an OS, we should define the pieces we need to build. I.e window management, file system explorer, PnP drivers… I sent you a DM.