Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 12503 from 2003/5/22
From: Germany
Update:
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https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/2026/03/we-are-ready-for-prototype-production/Schematics of the desktop board published and old donations been rededicated:
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On the 24th of April 2026 we published on our GitLab repository [...] the OrCad schematics source, converted to Altium and then imported into KiCad [...]. [...] On 6th April 2026, thanks to the funds collected for the Notebook CE certification and due to the temporary halt of Notebook motherboard production, the association used €2,130 from that previous campaign to pay and balance the Desktop Schematics design costs that are €6,250. A further €8,000 from association funds was used to pay a portion of the PCB costs in advance. The total cost of the PCB design is around €12,500; since €8,000 came from association funds, we have reduced the goal of the PCB donation campaign to €4,500."
https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/2026/04/kicad-schematics-sources-published-waiting-funds-for-prototypes/With this, the financial state of all campaigns/phases is as follows:
I_0. 12600 EUR: Electrical schematics [accomplished]
I_1A. 19000 EUR: PCB [accomplished]
I_1B. 5000 EUR: Fast SI bus simulations [accomplished]
I_2. 13500 EUR: Prototypes [accomplished]
I_3. 14000 EUR: Testing [accomplished]
I_4. 12500 EUR: Certification [
19% done]
I_5. 5357 EUR: Prototypes and MXM graphics cards [accomplished]
II_1. 1000 EUR: JTAG debugger [accomplished]
II_2. 5000 EUR: U-Boot [accomplished]
II_3. 8000 EUR: Fix everything that's broken [accomplished]
III_1. 6250 EUR: Electrical schematics (desktop) [accomplished]
III_2. 12500 EUR: PCB (desktop) [74% done]
III_3. 9000 EUR: Prototypes (desktop) [0% done]
III_4. ??? EUR: Testing (desktop)