Jan 23, 2025 21:00:00

Introducing the open source notebook PC 'anyon_e' with its own unique case and keyboard, equipped with a 4K OLED display and mechanical keyboard for gaming

A new laptop called ' anyon_e ' has been released, with all of its parts and design drawings open source. The anyon_e is equipped with a 'detachable thin mechanical keyboard' and a '4K OLED display,' and is said to have the specs to run Minecraft at 60fps.

Home | anyon_e

https://www.byran.ee/

Creation | anyon_e
https://www.byran.ee/posts/creation/

The person sitting in the lower right corner of the image below is the developer, Brian Fan. Fan is a student at the prestigious boarding school ' Philips Exeter Academy ' and developed anyon_e as his graduation project.

The logic board, trackpad, OLED display, battery, etc. of anyon_e are all commercially available. The OLED display is 13.3 inches in size and has a resolution of 4K.

The logic board uses the development board '

CM3588 ' equipped with Rockchip's SoC ' (PDF file) RK3588 '. The RK3588 has an Arm processor ' Cortex-A76 ' and a GPU ' Mali-G600 MC4 ' built in, as well as a 6TOPS NPU.

I also designed the case myself using CAD software.

The design of the hinge part was apparently based on that of Framework, an open source laptop development company.

Fan is also a keyboard enthusiast, and he designed the keyboard for anyon_e himself.

We put a lot of effort into the feel of the keyboard, and we use the ultra-thin mechanical key switch '

Cherry MX Ultra Low Profile ' sold by Cherry, a well-known manufacturer of mechanical keyboard key switches. By using a thin switch, we were able to design a thin keyboard that has the feel of a mechanical keyboard.

The completed anyon_e looks like this.

The keyboard is removable. It has a built-in battery, so you can remove it and use it as a wireless keyboard.

Removing the keyboard exposes the inside.

anyon_e runs Linux and can even play Minecraft at 60fps.

You can see anyon_e in action from 22 minutes and 44 seconds in the video below.

How I Made A Laptop From Scratch - anyon_e - YouTube


The hardware design data for anyon_e can be found at the link below.

anyon_e | Full Assembly
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/a18bb6df7dbba66df24a7ec8/w/967d921e60c207e3b6f5cf7b/e/1f78a9387b17c2d178742295

Additionally, other resources are listed at the links below.

GitHub - Hello9999901/laptop: A highly integrated, high end, open source laptop. Attempt the impossible.
https://github.com/Hello9999901/laptop