Byron Huang is a full-stack developer who recently made headlines in the hackerspace when he created

the Eni-on-E, which is a highly integrated open-source laptop. The effort was a massive undertaking

and showcased great design, hardware, and software. In this episode, Byron joins the show with

Gregor Van to talk about his work on the Eni-on-e

laptop. Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, having previously been a CTO across

cybersecurity, cyber insurance, and general software engineering companies. He is based in Singapore

and can be found via his profile at van.hk or on LinkedIn.

Welcome Byron. Thank you for having me, Gregor. It's an honor to be here.

Yeah. So very excited to have you here. Basically, you put out a hacker news post a few weeks ago

that kind of blew up big time about the project we're going to be speaking about today.

And you also put out an amazing video about it,

which we'll maybe get on to. I think what struck me the most was the fact that I looked you up

on LinkedIn kind of after that post and I thought you were a teacher at high school. And

turns out you're a student at high school. Is that right? Yeah, which was just kind of blew my mind. So let's get

into it. Could you describe what is Eni on E? Yeah, that's a great question, Gregor. And I'd like to

first describe the mission of it. It's a project that tries to show that anyone, and hence the name,

Anyon underscore E, if you combine it all, it

spells anyone, that anyone can build a laptop themselves, and it doesn't have to be something

that you have to go out and buy. Of course, feel free to go out and buy one, and you're

going to get higher quality, higher performance, and something that you probably use on a daily

basis. But I wanted to show that people, a maker, enthusiast, if you put in the effort and you put in the energy and the research, in a few months, you can create something that you can hand off to a family member or someone who's not very familiar with technology. And they'd be like, yeah, this is a laptop, something that they can use on a day-to-day basis. I'm not

really targeting gaming or AI or anything like that. I'm just targeting like a nice, solid laptop

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