CoreDump AlphaWorks

Welcome to CoreDump, the one-stop for techies, in this episode we re-engineer mum works to a cardculator, the AlphaWorks.

Dump 12.12.2020.10.31.AM

Monitor-Tabby: A new card calculator is born, called Alphaworks, from the ashes of the alpha smart, but from Numworks open sources. All related to Steve Jobs.

Gecko: I like the Numworks, but it has few shortcomings, too little RAM and FLASH storage, no networking, and a limited python interpreter.

Maybe a flash drive disk and WiFi + BLE ?

Stewie: Easily integrated, Dr. Bheemaiah, just invented a fun PCB printing on battery substrates, something everybody in the 3DP industry wanted, directly printing circuits on manifolds?

So we just cut and paste the required parts of the NumWorks top PCB and print it on a card power bank? Add the SDRAM, add more RAM, and an RF SoC?

instead of a USB one?

Lisa: Why not start with a Pi zero and the same display as Numworks, using the SPI? The ST7789V, it is easily available?

Calvin: I still prefer copper tape to filament printing? Maybe just the patterns, cut with a blade on a vinyl cutting plotter or laser cutter or engraver? Maybe 3DP is no messy?

Hobbes: Additive or subtractive, I am going to commercialize this, as Alphaworks.

Stewie: You have the Fire TV remote keyboard to use with BLE and a python browser OS, the PyMACS too, so data mining is possible, you just add a custom search on public record URLs instead of ID cards.

Lisa: This is the ID card, even card-shaped!