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The Black Box Guide

Welcome to the tarpit...

Hello netizens!

Ever been curious how a PC works in agonizing detail with hands-on experience and with a minimal price-tag beyond (hopefully already) owning a PC? If so you're in the right place!

This series will start off with explaining generally how to use Linux and how to code some really shoddy little projects before going into our main topic which will be how to develop all the firmware and software that a PC uses under the hood during normal use. We won't be making an incredible product but it will go into agonizing enough detail that you'll get a very solid understanding of how your PC works in a general sense. In fact the goal will be to make this extremely extensive while remaining approachable and hands-on.

As an important note: once we do get into learning about system development we will be learning how to develop on a RISC-V system, not an amd64/x86-64 system. Because of this, not everything we learn will apply specifically and exactly to how your PC works but it will be very, VERY closely related.

If that sounds interesting to you then great!

Hope you'll be joining along!

-- Kako