> But if you want free hardware you need to build it yourself. As in from the RTL up to the keyboard.

As unrealistic as it would be it would be an incredibly fun project if you could stick to it

Not sure how it’s licensed, but I can’t help but the think of Niklaus Wirth and Oberon.

Yes. So was free software. The idea that a worldwide community can build their own trustworthy software is amazing but it was subverted by hardware manufacturers and their backdoors and restrictions. We'll never be free until it's as easy to manufacture our own hardware at home as it is to write our own software.