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## What's your Cohost Link?
[kline](https://kline.cohost.org)
## What's the thing?
i'm building a computer body for my childhood stuffed monkey, george! this project is one long act of care for a creature i love very much ʕ·ᴥ·ʔ-<3
she's a 6502-based single-board computer with a very pretty monochrome amber monitor. this is my first foray into designing an entire system from scratch. i'm in the process of designing her, but so far she'll have a 3MHz clock, both character and "hi-res" (512x318) graphics using a motorola 6845 crtc, and her own custom-made voice playing from salvaged speakers from childrens' toys. i've already made her voice in ableton and a written a simple text-to-speech program to run on a pi for now, but getting her to speak with much tighter memory constraints will be a fun challenge. i'm also debating adding a microcassette deck for cute-sized program storage.
## Link the thing!
https://cohost.org/kline/post/2614966-george-os-episode-zer
## Anything else?