[izzydata]

Maybe I am being over critical, but this is not what I imagine when I think of a modular computer. It's cool being able to swap in and out all kinds of peripherals like that in any position and orientation, but the computer itself does not seem modular. Unless you could connect multiples of them together and increase their performance and space for more peripherals without causing additional overhead.

[bee_rider]

He has a TPU tile.

Automagically plugging in more compute would, I guess, require OS or application level support.

[bityard]

The "computer" is not really the interesting part here. In fact, this product seems to exclusively rely on cheap devices that anyone can already buy (current supply chain notwithstanding) linked together by very well-standardized buses.

The magic here is the overall flexibility and modularity of the system taken to a nearly absurd level. Kickstarter is lousy with smaller-scale attempts at what Anil has achieved. But where this really shines is in the software: You plug in some components and the system can automatically figure out what you want to do with them, and configure an application to use them instantly, at least for many simple but common cases.

I really hope that when this is available, it ends up being a largely open ecosystem like the Framework laptop.