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PCB source availability?? - profmuldrey - 01-07-2021
I'm preparing an upper-division engineering course in which we will be studying the hardware and full-stack software of the pinephone. I have found the schematics available on the pinephone wiki, but I'm curious whether the actual PCB layout files are available anywhere?
Thanks!
RE: PCB source availability?? - wibble - 01-07-2021
Not so far.
RE: PCB source availability?? - profmuldrey - 01-12-2021
(01-07-2021, 10:50 AM)wibble Wrote: Not so far.
Thanks for the info. Is this a topic that has been discussed already? Have Pine64 expressed their intention to release / not to release PCB design files?
RE: PCB source availability?? - wibble - 01-14-2021
I'm not aware of them having released PCB design files for anything else. Perhaps your educational purpose could convince them. I don't know if it's been discussed explicitly.
RE: PCB source availability?? - profmuldrey - 01-15-2021
I suppose it's worth a try! Can you suggest a way to get in touch with "them" to ask? I've emailed with salespeople at the "Pine Store," but I'm unsure whether they'd be the right ones to ask...
RE: PCB source availability?? - wibble - 01-19-2021
Try @Luke or @tllim here.
RE: PCB source availability?? - tllim - 01-25-2021
There is no plan to release the PCB source file.
RE: PCB source availability?? - fsflover - 01-26-2021
You may consider Librem 5 phone instead. Here are the schematics:
https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Frequently-Asked-Questions#19-is-the-librem-5-freeopen-hardware
The devkit has the PCB source file, so you can use it. Concerning the phone itself:
> CEO Todd Weaver says that Purism needs to recover its development costs before releasing the Gerber files, which they are “thinking about releasing in a time capsule” of “3 years, 5 years, something like that.”