[Arm-netbook] 10in tablet and dock

[Christopher Thomas]

I'll get you the drawings soon. I have Altium. 

Christopher Thomas

On Jul 12, 2013, at 10:07 AM, joem <joem at martindale-electric.co.uk> wrote:

> On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 11:07 +0100, luke.leighton wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 10:36 AM, joem <joem at martindale-electric.co.uk> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2013-07-11 at 15:29 +0100, luke.leighton wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 1:37 PM, joem <joem at martindale-electric.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> What can 1 kilo dollar buy these days?
>>>>> 
>>>>> At least 1 open sourced PCB per week and tech assistance to make sure it
>>>>> works.
>>>> 
>>>> cool.  would you like to do a mini or monster engineering-board or a
>>>> pass-through card?  a pass-through card would be extremely useful as a
>>>> base-line tester (and also as a final product which can turn e.g. a
>>>> tablet into e.g. a 2nd screen for e.g. a Desktop PC).  the
>>>> engineering-boards especially one with an on-board STM32F would do
>>>> very well as a kickstarter project, especially if the schematics are
>>>> open and available.
>>> 
>>> I'd like to do as many as I can.
>>> For the money, I place bets on doing the simple one first and moving up
>>> the ladder. What / where is pass-through card and info + circuits.
>>> If you got gerbers to share like with PCMCIA, board outline etc, then
>>> foot prints from Gerber can be imported into KiCAD to speed up work
>>> instead of redesigning from scratch.
>> 
>> yep.  ermmermerm.... i'll look them up and send them to you (files
>> for the micro-eng board are in altium).
>> 
>>  or... christopher, could you
>> forward the latest rev micro-eng to joe? i noticed that there were
>> some changes done.
> 
> Sadly I don't have direct access to altium - please generate the gerbers
> removing anything you don't wish to share and I can import the gerbers
> into kicad. I need the PCB outline, and connectors and pads and silks to
> make life easy. PDFs of schematics you wish to share also great.
> 
> 
>> pass-through card is a concept, ultra-ultra-simple, it's a TFP410a
>> and errr that's it!
>> 
>> mini-eng-board is basically micro with an RGB/TTL-to-DVI-or-VGA
>> converter IC (pick an IC, any IC...)  nice to have would be an STM32F
>> (say the 48-pin one) and _really_ nice to have would be the STM32F207
>> series.  copying the leaflab maple schematics (some of which are
>> already in kicad) would be easy to get things going there.
> 
> Look forward Luke.
> 
> You do know of course, if you were to make a compact mains power supply
> that also takes the emoa card, then you got a sheepaplugggggg!!!!
> 
> If someone has pdfs of compact mains supply that works from 110V to 220V
> and wish to share, then I can get the sheeepapluggggg board built asap
> and gpl it.
> 
> 
>> l.
>> 
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