Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

"A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" is a central and symbolic artifact in Neal Stephenson's "The Diamond Age."

The Primer is an advanced, interactive, nanotech-driven book, and its main properties include: adaptive story-telling, interactive, voice-activated, lieflong companion, teaching practical skills, nanotechnological, encrypted, socially impacting.

Diamond Age

"The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" is a postcyberpunk novel by Neal Stephenson that delves into a future transformed by nanotechnology. Set in a world where molecular machines can create almost anything on demand, the story revolves around an interactive book designed to educate a young girl from a wealthy family. However, when this sophisticated device falls into the hands of Nell, a child from the lower socio-economic stratum, it becomes both her guide and protector in navigating a complex, stratified society. "

Hackworth's Primer

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GPT-4 generated SDXL prompt:: "A thick, ornate tome adorned with intricate nano-engraved patterns that shimmer and shift with light, reflecting a solarpunk aesthetic. The cover is adorned with a blend of nature and technology motifs, with vines intertwining around gears and circuits. Tiny nanobots move across the cover, repairing and updating the patterns. The edges of the book are gilded with a soft luminescent hue, giving it an ethereal glow. On the front, the title "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" is elegantly scripted, and below it, an emblem that combines a blooming flower and a cogwheel. The tome, though appearing ancient, pulsates with advanced nanotechnology, making it a beautiful juxtaposition of the old world charm and the futuristic solarpunk vision."

Primer is an AI-embooking artefact able to teach and assist human learner in art of construction of deployment of more advanced variants of the Primer.

Primer ? Fibel ? WTF ???

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left-handed and right-handed Personal Primer Prototypes fibel0.(local|lan) and fibel1.(local|lan)

Personal Primer (see picture) & digital primer (c.f fibel.digital) are projects & concepts developed by daniel@udk-berlin.de @d.hromada:medienhaus.udk-berlin.de and his team at Berlin University of the Arts / Einstein Center Digital Future.

The concept is simple: more experienced hackers build primers for less experienced ones. Less experiences hackers use primers to become more experienced hackers.

Shell (for the Ghost)

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SDXL prompt "young hacker's illustrated digital primer which will transform a poor orphan girl into a princess over Shaghai, India, Commonwealth ; artefact made of wood, cork embedding the hottest artificial intelligence a solarpunk poet may ever imagine"

The physical body ("the P-shell") embodies physical properties defined in the Personal Primer 23-property roadmap (Hromada, 2018). Shell materials of organic origin are preferred over non-organic ones.

Main properties

Embooked / Book-like

Voluminous

Modular

Robust

Personalized

Prefered Materials

(nano-) paper / cardboard / wood

textile / wool / leather

ceramics / pottery / clay

stone / glass / crystal

Hardware

Input

AUDIO :: Respeaker 2-mic array with additional button

Grove - Gesture is PAJ7620U2 (I2C)

ssh

Processing Unit(s)

Raspberry Pi Zero v1

Output

DISPLAY :: e-ink (Waveshare 7 inch with IT8951 controller has <1s full refresh rate, also supports partial refresh)

SOUND :: 8 OHM / 8W speaker Visaton K50 connected to Respeaker 2-mic audio out

USB male to female cable, with port exported to the side of the Primer

E-ink

Energy-related

tricky situation: USB charging 5V, LiPo batterias 3.7V, e-ink controller needs 5V, solar panel gives 7V

diverse circuits for voltage increase (booster, step-up), decrease (buck, step-down) are needed, or current stabilization (photovoltaics) are needed

WittyPi allows us to get current/voltage information, have inner clock, have device with its own boot on, boot off cycles

cute little Voltmeter connected to the third state of the main button

Software

Operating System

Code

A.I.

Energy

Prefered source of energy: solar energy

Prefered battery storage mechanism: none

Question: why ?