A full teardown of the Pinebook

[pfeerick]

You are absolutely correct, thanks for pointing it out. I will amend that -- the reason why the bottom 'came right off' on my pre-production unit is 1) the quality and fitting of the plastic was a little poorer on the pre-production units; 2) I have taken it off many many times before because that was the only way to enter FEL on it to flash a new image.

I've uploaded the photos I took the other night, plus some more I've just taken in better outdoor lighting, of the 11.4" production model internals for everyones viewing pleasure In pulling the pinebook apart for taking these photos, I have to again say I am impressed by the efforts they took to make it DIY friendly... machine screens with brass insert threads instead of course thread self-tappers, no fancy security screws on anything, the interference shields clip on instead of being soldered or tacked on, and all the ribbon connectors are taped to help ensure they don't pull free on their own.

I noticed there there is both a momentary push button near the wifi section, and a slide switch down near the mini HDMI connector. Which one is used for FEL mode, and do we know what the other one does yet? From the schematic on the pinebook resources section, it appears the push button is related to uboot (inset on page 5), and the switch is something to do with the microSD card but still uboot related (page 9)? If it was just the momentary push button that needed to be held down for FEL mode... I'd just measure it out on the back case and drill a hole so I can poke something suitablly non-conductive and skinny like a pen ink tube into the hole instead of having to disassemble the pinebook for fel mode.

For the full photo collection, click here... but in the mean time...