Building an Open-Source Laptop with Byran Huang

Byron Huang is a full stack developer who recently made headlines in the hackerspace when he created the Anyony, which is a highly integrated, open source laptop. The effort was a massive undertaking and showcased great design, hardware, and software. In this episode, Byron joins the show with Gregor Vann to talk about his work on the Anyanni laptop. Gregor Vann is a security focused technologist, having previously been a CTO across cybersecurity, cyber insurance, and general software engineering companies. He is based in Singapore and can be found via his profile at van.hk or on LinkedIn. Welcome, Byron. Thank you for having me, Gregor. It's an honor to be here. Yeah. So very excited to have you here. Basically, you put out a Hacker News post a few weeks ago that kinda blew up big time about the project we're gonna be speaking about today. Mhmm. And you also put out an amazing video about it, which we'll maybe get on to. I think what struck me the most was the fact that I looked you up on LinkedIn kind of after that post, and I thought you were a teacher at high school. And turns out you're a student at high school. Is that right? Yeah. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. Which was just kinda blew my mind. So let's get into it. Could you describe what is AnyOnE? Yeah. That's a great question, Gregor. And I'd like to first describe the mission of it. It's a project that tries to show that anyone and hence the name anyon underscore e if you combine it all it spells anyone. That anyone can build a laptop themselves and it doesn't have to be something that you have to go out and buy. Of course, feel free to go out and buy one and you're gonna get higher quality, higher performance, and something that you probably use on a daily basis. But I wanted to show that people, a maker enthusiast, if you put in the effort and you put in the energy and the research, in a few months you can create something that you can hand off to a family member or someone who's not very familiar with technology and they'd be like, yeah this is a laptop, something that they can use on a day to day basis. I'm not really targeting gaming or AI or anything like that. I'm just targeting like a nice solid laptop that people can use while not really having any quirks or anything like that. And just having this machine that everything is built from scratch. There's no secrets behind the hood and that was the mission where I try and make everything from scratch as much as possible while achieving as high performance and resembling as close to a modern thin and light laptop as I could. Amazing. Yeah. You mentioned both in post you've put up and the video, you were trying to disprove the idea that technology is either …