Permacomputing

Borrowing from the philosophy of permaculture farming, there is the idea of permacomputing which is based on frugality, salvage, and considering collapse scenarios.

Radical open-source OS and software aiming in an inverse direction from popular computing (3D, GUIs, fancy graphics card, heavy power use, etc). Essentials which one can use in ultra-low-impact or off the grid scenarios.

• Collapse OS is creating “Bootstrap post-collapse technology” so basically a computer for after modern society collapses.
• uxn ecosystem is a personal computing playground

Radical new open-source hardware devices meant to be tinkered, repaired, modified or entirely fabricated in a decentralized fashion.

• MTN Reform a fully open source laptop created for intensive tinkering + upgradablity in mind.

Fresh starts and approaches to making basic components for computing in open and sustainable ways.

• Sam Zeloof @szeloof of Carnegie Melon is making homebrew computer chips

Devices which allow for a full computing experience but can be fabricated with minimal efforts, parts, etc.

• Mini Computer Easel
• Mini Server Raspberry Pi 4 by N-O-D-E
• Zero Terminal by N-O-D-E

A nifty hack posted by Chris Beckstrom is how to get rca video output from a #raspberrypi zero. In Chris' words “do a tiny bit of soldering and there ya go. Really nice way to avoid a million adapters if your destination is analog!”