Case Schematics

[Michael Shiloh]

Hi,

When this question came up a week or two ago I said I'd look into this. 
I did.

We have been discussing this internally, and so far I have met no 
objection to the principle of releasing this information. There is a 
question of what form it should take, and of course there is always the 
issue of having to take the time to do this, while delaying something 
else. I'm not sure what form our 3D CAD files are in. In the worst case, 
I suppose I could get the printouts as PDF documents.

I'll continue to push forward on this.

As Jeremiah points out this question has been raised numerous times 
since the birth of this project. Nothing has changed in terms of the 
policy, perhaps now we just are structured and organized sufficiently 
that we know how to think about and process such a question.

Of course our highest priority right now is getting GTA02 finished, so 
I'm careful not to interfere with that in any way.

I'll keep you informed.
Michael

Jeremiah Flerchinger wrote:
>   I have no clue why dimensional drawings or 3D models of the Neo 
> haven't been released either.  People have been requesting them for 
> quite some time to explore alternate case designs 
> (http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Hardware:Neo1973:Alternate_Cases).  I 
> myself would be happy with something as simple as a Wavefront object 
> file, since almost any CAD tool can import these.
> 
> Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>> Gabriel Ambuehl writes:
>>   
>>> On Wednesday 26 December 2007 21:11:18 Michael Shiloh wrote:
>>>     
>>>> The main reason IIRC is that some of the chips came with NDAs that
>>>> prevent us from doing so.
>>>>
>>>>       
>>> You have chips in the case? oOOOo
>>>     
>> Well, the original request was phrased strangely -- the case wouldn't
>> *have* schematics!  Presumably what was meant was dimensional drawings
>> (which also haven't been released, for reasons that escape me).