Yes, I've seen those though unfortunately I'm not a hardware engineer and would have a hard time reproducing them. Even if I could figure out how to get a PCB made from a KiCAD file I wouldn't be able to do the surface-mount soldering without botching everything.
I'd love to be able to just pay for them and buy them and then get rolling with software :)
I just got my AMD Framework 13, which I'm mostly happy with, but I'm in the same boat. It's great that's it's possible to attach these devices to the laptop, but the true nature of this seems to be that you have to make these things because there isn't a real market for them beyond what Framework is selling.
I did come up with something I would want enough that I'm willing to try to make it though. Taking inspiration from some other modules like it, I'm currently looking into adding this microcontroller with a transparent case:
If I'm happy with it, I was going to try to have it show battery status like some other laptops have. This might be possible by wiring up another microcontroller to the SMBus on the battery. I'm still researching that part though.
> Even if I could figure out how to get a PCB made from a KiCAD file I wouldn't be able to do the surface-mount soldering without botching everything.
For what it's worth, some places like JLCPCB can source and solder SMT components to your designed boards as long as you pick from their available parts library.
Thanks! I'll take a look into this. I always thought PCBs required minimum order quantities in the tens to get assembled (mostly because I had a startup before in which we had an EE that took care of this)
I'd love to be able to just pay for them and buy them and then get rolling with software :)