Mainboard on Steady Monkey

Exploring Mainboard housing v1 with cardboard

Sun, 05 Jun 2022 13:02:14 +0000

Yesterday I played around with cardboard to have a better (physical) sense of the first housing version. In short, this housing will be the simplest I can build to fit the Mainboard and an Atreus keyboard. Nothing fancy, not even an internal routing of the USB cable. In the end I want to build momentum and, considering the blocks of time I can allocate to this project, I figured it would be best to use (very) small increments.

The transportable Mainboard-based computer

Sun, 29 May 2022 15:17:00 +0000

As I previously mentioned, my goal for the Framework Mainboard I will receive as part of the Mainboard Developer Program is twofold: build 1) a transportable computer that has 2) a better keyboard. The challenge is mainly about my own lack of experience as a maker. And that I don’t want to use highly specialised equipment such as CNC machining or 3D printing, at least not for the first iterations.

I got in the Framework Mainboard Developer Program

Sat, 21 May 2022 13:58:09 +0000

Two weeks ago, I received an e-mail telling me I had been accepted in the Framework Mainboard Developer Program. Framework (archived) has a very interesting approach to sustainability in electronics that reminds me of Fairphone, though I don’t want to compare them directly. I worked at Fairphone for more than three years at the time of Fairphone 2, and the modular aspect of the phone was amazing. I have been following Framework since they launched a crowdfunding campaign for their first generation modular laptop, it’s a really positive outcome that they are still there and made it to the second generation.