I have a few ideas that keep popping into my head, but I never seem to get around to doing anything about them. I’m listing them here so that I can at least get them down on paper before they disappear into the fog of other problems.
- We need engineers who are proficient in both hardware and software. I call them “fuller stack engineers.”
- I need to practice soldering. I’d like to learn the best practices and get a good enough kit to do SMT soldering.
- I need to get an FPGA and practice designing simple circuits with RISC-V architecture. Some modern i3/i5/i7 laptops do not support more RAM by design. My laptop can easily support 16GB of RAM, but it only supports 8GB. This is a design decision that the laptop manufacturers made. To support more RAM, they would have had to add more connections to the processor, which would have made the design more complex and expensive. In 2014, the engineers decided that the laptop would only support 8GB of RAM. When I bought the laptop, I assumed that it would support any amount of RAM as long as it wasn’t a 32-bit machine. I added swap space with twice the amount of RAM on my SSD, and it’s great to see it being used. Theoretically, a machine can support 2^64 GB of RAM.