Bootstrap post-collapse technology
Winter is coming and Collapse OS aims to soften the blow. It is a z80 kernel and a collection of programs, tools and documentation that aims to preserve our ability to program microcontrollers through civilizational collapse. Collapse OS brought to completion can:
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.
The project lives on github and is progressing well! Highlights:
See documentation for instructions.
For a general discussion of Collapse OS and the ecosystem of technologies and ideas that may develop around it refer to r/collapseos on Reddit
A more traditional mailing list and IRC (#collapseos on freenode) channels are also maintained.
A lot of questions that you might have may already have been anwered in a big discussion about it occurred on Reddit. I've answered many questions there.
There was also a nice conversation on Hacker News about Collapse OS, but I didn't participate because I don't have a HN account. Also, this community doesn't seem collapse-aware so the idea of participation into this discussion seemed tedious to me. But the user "yellowapple" did a good job of answering many questions in a way that is similar to what I would have.