[maemo-community] OpenDesign N900

[From: Timo Pelkonen]

2010/1/9 Qole <qole.tablet at gmail.com>

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> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Timo Pelkonen <peltsip at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 2010/1/7 chemist <chemist at dostortugas.org>
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>>  Hey folks,
>>>
>>> after reading several posts about the crap backpanel I came to the idea
>>> to ask the community for a redesign ...
>>>
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> <snip>
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>>  Maybe Nokia is interessted in it and will provide us with the drawings
>>> to start from. This way maemo.org would expand to maintain
>>> opendesign hardware as well as opensource software...
>>>
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> <snip>
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>>> Regards,
>>> Ruediger Schiller
>>>
>>> --
>>>
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>> I am pretty sure that nokia won't send a model of theirs...
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> It would be great if they would!
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> I think it would be a wonderful good-will offering to the open source
> community to share some of their hardware designs with us, too! This one
> isn't really a big deal, is it? Nothing super-proprietary or secret?
>
> Last year, the Maemo division was formed to handle both software AND
> hardware for Maemo devices. Can we start to see some opening up of the
> hardware side, now, too?
>
> Please?
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>
>
There are issues like competition in accessory markets. So the main question
is, will the original model leak to internet for public access? Giving an
exact 3d-model to sweat shops is a bit like doing ~15 hours charity work for
them (14 hours is an old magical number for design duration per part). One
cnc -machiner with 3d-model creates a program for moulds in a hour or two,
machine does its work overnight.

But it is up Nokia to decide if the risk is worth the reward.

Any way I am doing my work mostly with solidworks (soon 2010 -version) and
if this gets started, I can help too.

Ossipena / Timo
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