Winter is coming and Collapse OS aims to soften the blow. It is a Forth (why Forth?) operating system and a collection of tools and documentation with a single purpose: preserve the ability to program microcontrollers through civilizational collapse. It is designed to:
- Run on minimal and improvised machines.
- Interface through improvised means (serial, keyboard, display).
- Edit text and binary contents.
- Compile assembler source for a wide range of MCUs and CPUs.
- Read and write from a wide range of storage devices.
- Assemble itself and deploy to another machine.
Additionally, the goal of this project is to be as self-contained as possible. With a copy of this project, a capable and creative person should be able to manage to build and install Collapse OS without external resources (i.e. internet) on a machine of her design, built from scavenged parts with low-tech tools.
Honestly if the world goes to sheet, and you want to do anything with computers, assembly would be good to know. But that's assuming there's still a reliable source of power, and you have pre-stored all the tools/documents to work this way.
yeah, while this is focusing on creating software, really that's only one part of the discussion of maintaining tech throughout such a period of time
This is true, it may not be viable to waste time in such a time trying to create a room-sized device to fix a blown circuit board chip that you can't salvage elsewhere. It may in fact be better to learn how to build farm tools, farm, raise farm animals, etc.
I do agree with this. If it goes too poo we need to keep electronics alive however 1st priority would be building, crafting, sowing, farming. Those youtube blacksmiths will be worth their weight in gold
But the problem is no one would have access to those videos anymore, and they would need to know the person in person.