Billy Pettit real disappointment

[Jules Richardson]

Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> I thing it would probably be interesting to make a computer where the 
> building blocks would be tetrahedra, and you would bolt them together in 
> 3D configurations.  Can you make an icosahedron out of tetrahedra?

Hmm... a parallel Buckyball computer - now there's an idea. IIRC it's mainly 
octagons with a few pentagons - maybe construct the thing from octagonal 
computing surfaces with interconnects at the edges, then use the pentagons as 
way of communicating with the outside world (and routing power, cooling etc. 
into the inside of the device?

I like a bit of sillyness with my morning coffee ;-)

(does PCB fab equipment even exist that can lay out boards with anything other 
than a NSEW arrangement? Whilst I've seen some funny shaped PCBs, I don't 
think I've ever seen a mass-produced board with components at weird angles)