Two things, that I'd like to contribute.

A new-name suggestion, if it comes to that...

"Open Modular Card System", stylized "OMCaS". (Pronounced AHM-cass) It's, from what I can tell, a fairly accurate descriptor, and the acronym is fairly catchy.

...and an idea for further expansion. Rather than have a single CPU card that plugs into a carrier board with lots of stuff, why not have *multiple* cards -- both as the "motherboard" and as the expansion cards...? ;) Key them differently, and then all you need is a mostly-passive backplane ("mostly" because it would obviously break out some of the ports) and a pile of Cardbus connectors.

What do you all think?

On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net> wrote:

On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 11:05 AM, joem <joem@martindale-electric.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-06-22 at 09:54 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>> well,
>>
>> i must apologise to everyone, the effect that the situation with aaron
>
> In reality you can't now be sure any of it is Aaron's fault.

i didn't say "fault" - that's judgement.

> And now you begin to wonder what I meant when I said the pole was
> greased from two different directions:

:)

> http://www.gplsquared.com/SoM2/SoM2.html alternative in full KiCAD

> The final jigsaw is a fully GPL'd openscad based case designs for
> tablet, netbooks, panel computer, and match box sized gadget.
> Got me four 3D printers to address that soon enough.

oo. i have a partially-completed layout for a tablet in blender, all
the components have "parts"representing them - touchscreen etc - it
needs the "outside" making. any takers?

l.

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