chrisstopher

how easy do you think this would be to make

do know where i could buy some other weak chips that could run a linux os 

could you show me some rasberry pi chips and where ic ould buy them i have a pi4 and 3 pi0ws but i never knew they had chips for sale 

14 hours ago, MigL said:

One question only...
Is the solar power for recharging the battery only, or do you want to run off it as well?

-If you intend to run off solar, I assume you'll spend a lot of time outdoors. ; you're going to need a very bright screen.
-You might wanna give yourself a little more than a month, as companies like Lenovo and Apple, with much higher development budgets than you, still haven't been able to accomplish this.
-This pretty well limits you to very low power chips, based on the ARM architecture ( think Raspberry Pi and Arduino SoC ); you certainly can't use X86 architecture ( not even Atom ).
-You would want the solar panel to have optimum orientation to the Sun; that would be screen/keyboard areas on a standard laptop form factor, so not particularly suitable. Even optimally, a 1/2 square foot ( 6 x12 inch, fairly large ) panel will produce a peak ( instantaneous ) of slightly better than 7 Watts.

If solar is intended for recharging only, will you be using it only at night and re-charging during the day ?
( maybe this is the reason Lenovo or Apple aren't developing such an impractical product )

what os would you recomend
 

@Sensei

I'm trying to make a laptop  that is solar powered purely from scratch  could someone help me plan it out
ill be editing this list as I go but right now I'm working on:
motherboard
solar panels
finding a good online PCB designer that I can use to design a motherboard 
The time limit is till January 1st but I have to make 3 ideas but since this is the 1 I'm most enthusiastic about ill spend a month on this idea and 2 weeks on the other ideas 
my questions are {what other parts would I have to create to make this a fully working laptop that can type up on a word editor and send emails it's supposed to be a baseboard working computer }
if you have any contributions or anything that you would like to add thanks also this is my last post of the day but ill try to edit this response to reply to u guys 
good suggestions would be :
[things I need to add to this list because it is all from scratch and the deadlines January 1st only things allowed are PCB printers and other tools and services like 3d printing services used for printing out the cooling fan]
[coding the os I don't mean coding an OS with every dingle dangle in their just a word editor and connecting all the peripherals, managing files, and this is huge if I have time somehow  adding an internet browser cause ]
[a nice lithium-ion battery.size to be determined but it will be custom made so if you have any suggestions for how places to order one it would be nice how much mAh it should be depending on how much it cost to run since its gonna be low power]
[If you could give me some more suggestions on coding languages and where to start if there are any good teaching platforms like code gym for java or if there are any good books like black hat python] 
this is for an engineering project I thought it would be better to address it head-on with 1 large post instead of those 2 posts from earlier today but for all those who answer your responses won't be in vain right now I'm waiting for more notebooks to come in because my other engineering/coding  notebooks are filled up with doodles 

well I think I put everything in here later ill edit the other requirements in if you got any advice it would be helpful 

is this better doing it in a more condensed post instead of multiple posts

guess ill be learning c++

i know java and python  what other languages would i need to make my own operating system 

i can already do that ive made tons of things useing rasberry pi and audrino and its a extra credit project

can you describe it in more detail and the parts that i would need other than microchips and cpu  becuase the endgoal is to make a full computer 

what is a motherboard made of and how would i make 1 i have a budget of 1000 dollars in this hypothetical scenario and would only like to print 1 if you could help me it would be of great thanks