grow your own laptop

[dhouston]

A few people are using the Raspberry Pi B+ as their HA controller. Here's an interesting DIY project to build your own laptop (with WiFi) based on Pi+ kits. There's even an option to 3D print your own case. Things have progressed a (little) bit from the Sinclair ZX81 kit I gave my oldest son for Xmas in 1981.

• http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81089.html?google_editors_picks=true

[dave w]

Things have progressed a (little) bit from the Sinclair ZX81

Excepting the poppel switch keyboard, the Sinclair was cool, especially the price.

[beelocks]

The ZX81 was leaps and bounds ahead of the ZX80.
The ZX81 had a MASSIVE 8k ROM and the RAM could be expanded to a mindboggling 64k.
Being an early adopter of the ZX series I spent all of my money on the ZX80 and could only drool over the 81 and the Spectrum the following year

[HA Dave]

........ The ZX81 had a MASSIVE 8k ROM and the RAM could be expanded to a mindboggling 64k.

PLUS rubber keyboard buttons too.... if I remember correctly. I bought a Commodore... the Vic-20. 

[dhouston]

I bought a Commodore...

No. 2 son got a C64, then inherited my Kaypro II when I went to a PC. But both sons fondly remember the Sinclair.