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Prototyping Framework Laptop Expansion Cards

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In this video I'll be doing some preliminary prototyping of a magnetic "MagSafe" charging expansion card, and a hidden RF Mouse dongle Card for the Framework Laptop. Although these are primarily for finalizing PCB dimensions I will see if I can get them to actually function.

Framework Laptop Review - https://youtu.be/0_MmDhly_H0
Framework Website - https://bit.ly/frameworkDIY

Timecodes:
0:00 - Opener
1:37 - The Actual Plan
3:02 - Designing/Building the MagSafe Enclosure.
4:48 - MagSafe Enclosure Results
5:57 - Tiny Soldering
8:45 - Final Assembly
9:48 - RF Dongle Plans A, B and C
11:30 - RF Dongle Card Design and Assembly
12:51 - Final Results
13:06 - Testing the Cards
16:26 - Final Thoughts


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> The Framework laptop has upgradeable RAM, but you will have to upgrade it yourself (discarding the RAM that comes with it) if you want more than 32 GB

FWIW, if I understand you correctly, AIUI you can order the "DIY" Framework with no RAM at all, so there's no need to discard anything--but also, just looked now & you can also order the DIY edition with 64GB.

> By the time you want to upgrade the CPU, the mainboard won't be compatible, so what's really there to upgrade?

The mainboard! (Well, that's Framework's plan at least.)

And the mainboards can run standalone too, so you in theory you can use it to automate your house in the future or something too. :)

(With regard to the 2-in-1 aspect, I think it's important to remember that this is Framework's first product range, they need to limit their scope to not spread themselves too thin.)

And people are already starting to experiment with hacking together their own modules, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_uOzNt-xwY who was prototyping with off the shelf "magsafe" style adapters & essentially "rehousing" a wireless mouse dongle.

So with a "universal" wireless mouse + keyboard dongle rehoused in a module you could get two of your ports at least. :)

> If Framework opens this up for other companies to make modules

From what I can tell, they already did that: https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/ExpansionCards

> USB port module with an integrated Logitech wireless mouse receiver

This guy seems to be making something like that (minus the USB port): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_uOzNt-xwY

People are working on some interesting stuff. Example:

RP2040 expansion card: https://community.frame.work/t/rp2040-microcontroller-expans...

The engineers at framework seem to be very active on the forum engaging with the community.

Sep 21, 2021 · 8 points, 0 comments · submitted by slantyyz
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