1 Jul
2007
1 Jul
'07
6:36 a.m.
Jules Richardson wrote:
Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
Look at a BTX-spec motherboard sometime.
Peace... Sridhar
I thing it would probably be interesting to make
a computer where the
building blocks would be tetrahedra, and you would bolt them together
in 3D configurations. Can you make an icosahedron out of tetrahedra?
Hmm... a parallel Buckyball computer - now there's an idea. IIRC it's
mainly octagons with a few pentagons - maybe construct the thing from
octagonal computing surfaces with interconnects at the edges, then use
the pentagons as way of communicating with the outside world (and
routing power, cooling etc. into the inside of the device?
I like a bit of sillyness with my morning coffee ;-)
(does PCB fab equipment even exist that can lay out boards with anything
other than a NSEW arrangement? Whilst I've seen some funny shaped PCBs,
I don't think I've ever seen a mass-produced board with components at
weird angles)