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Multimedia software

User interface

Software engineering best practices

  • Software Engineer's Reference Book, John McDermid, 1992. ISBN-13: 978-0750608138, ISBN-10: 0750608137

    This is a compilation of surveys written by people in the fields of testing, systems design, and so on. Each survey describes the practices and techniques used in that field, and include a rich bibliography

Programming practices (human-human interactions)

  • The psychology of computer programming silver anniversary edition

Hardware

CPU and integrated circuits

  • Wikipedia's illustration of a NAND gate's physical layout clearly shows how NMOS and PMOS transistors are created on a silicon substrate, as well as a schematic representation of the resulting layers. Page visited on 2019-03-12.
  • Some people have built small integrated circuits (e.g. inverters) at home, using simple equipment: Jeri Ellsworth, HomeCMOS.
  • visual6502.org, a sumulation of the 6502 CPU based on photos of the silicon die. It features an online zoomable view of the CPU with different colors for the logic states, in which wires and transistors blink as the CPU executes instructions.

Keyboard

  • N-shot injection keycaps
  • Planck keyboards have only four rows. The first row is usually activated with the thumbs, and all other keys are at most 1 key away from the home row. Example layout of a planck keyboard
  • WASD Keyboards does full-color print on keycaps. Examples: illustrations (planets and space decor) on keys Video editing software shortcuts On-key characters for greek, mathematical symbols and other languages accessible via XCompose
  • Manufacturers and sellers:
    • Massdrop gathers enthusiasts to buy medium-sized batches of random items (including keybords) to reduce the costs of small series that would not be commercialy viaable otherwise.
  • Relegendable keycaps, a paper label can be placed below a transparent snap-on top. Other source. Relegendable keys can have part of the legend on the front, and can be flat keys or thick keys.
  • Apple Touch Bar
  • Optimus Maximus keyboard has OLED screens below the keys, which are transparent, so that the symbols or icons under the keys can be changed.

Screen

  • OLPC display

    The OLPC (One Laptop Per Child project) integrates a Pixel Qi screen. This screen uses subpixels (red, green, blue) with a square aspect ratio using a non-traditional layout of the subpixels. It features a reflective higher-resolution black and white display, which works in bright sunlight. Behind that black and white layer, there is a backlit screen with colored pixels. This means that depending on the lighting of the environment and backlight brightness, the color may fade away, but a crisp black and white picture will always be visible. This also allows for reduced power consumption if the backlight is disabled or its brightness reduced.

File format standards

Used to generate or write files in this project

Used to read files

Bootstrap

Bootstrapping is an important facet of technology. By having a clear path to bootstrap a given branch of science or technology we can explain it in a more synthetic way, implement things in a clean way while getting rid of historical blunders and baseless traditions.

Having some hindsight on the shortest path to success can give some foresight on the future directions to explore. If the failed paths are also made clear, this foresight might extend to knowing which future directions should likely be avoided.

The references in this section are not limited to computer-related technologies.

  • RepStrap

    RepRap is a 3D printer that is capable of replicating most of its parts which are not off-the-shelf.

    RepStrap projects are about creating an initial RepRap without an existing RepRap and without advanced tooling.

  • Global Village Construction Set

    The GVCS aims to design construction kits for 50 industrial machines which would be necessary for a self-sufficient village. Among these are the compressed earth brick press (used to make bricks for buildings), a tractor, a wind turbine, or the Fabrication Construction Set which can be used to build the other machines.

  • The Knowledge How to rebuild our world from scratch, Lewis Dartnell, ISBN-10: 0143127047, ISBN-13: 978-0143127048