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#456.3 – Discussing Fomu with Tim Ansell and Sean Cross
Welcome Tim “Mithro” Ansell, Sean “Xobs” Cross and (returning co-host) Michael Ossmann!
- Past guest appearances
- Tim Ansell on #375
- Michael Ossmann on #440.2 (at KiCon), among many other episodes (search for Michael Ossmann in past episodes)
- Sean did the firmware on the Novena, an open source laptop he designed with Bunnie. We discussed this on episode #336.
- Tim and Sean are working on the Fomu, discussed on the show after Chris took the workshop at Teardown.
- Dave later was asking Chris about why open source and RISC V is relevant (on episode #449), which he struggled to voice. This episode discussed the relevance of these technologies.
- There was a recent CS update about the Fomu going to camp, including a talk that Sean gave about the Fomu.