Does anyone know if there’s a project to adapt an AirTag to expansion card form factor?
It would be neat if it could charge off USB and ditch the coin cell.
If you search, you’ll find two discussions of AirTag cards. Someone did squeeze one in.
But ultimately, if the desire is to track your laptop in case of theft, it’s not of as much use as you might hope.
Android devices are supposed to alert you of airtags “following” you as well now. link
These types of trackers just have too much potential to be used for stalking, and they have been, especially before apple increased countermeasures. So they, by necessity, have to be nerfed to the point that they aren’t of great use for theft tracking.
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Just to bring in a point though, Airtags are also great for when you lose your belongings, say on a train or somewhere you forgot!
It’s sad (although nessecary) that Airtags got nerfed, but it definetly still does have other uses!
‘Homemade’ China AirTag Costs 7x Less Than Apple’s Own Trackers And Supports Find My To Locate Misplaced Or Stolen Items This may be something to look into if you want something that fits in a smaller form factor! This may even fit in a Snack Drawer xD
Interesting. Though google doesn’t give any source for the “NDB1793SG” module, which seems to be used there. Nothing on aliexpress. Is there any source that ships outside china easily & preferably has an english option? TaoBao seems to want an account to even search. Plus, they don’t seem to have an English option.
I don’t know how useful it would be without the precision of UWB, but if it was cheap and available it would be nice to try.
In searching around, I see there are other efforts to make BLE devices that work with the apple airtag FindMy system. Though apple might block use at some point.
Hello all, does anyone know if it is possible to have an HDMI input module to use the framework display as a portable monitor for gaming consoles or an extra monitor for a pc. I know for a console you can use a capture card but from what I have seen the delay is significant, and for a pc you can use it as a wireless display with some delay. But my proposal would be one more like the HDMI input that the Alienware m17 x r4 has.
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Here’s some threads that answer your question.
Here’s a good one from a member of the Framework team:
In my expected use of the 16" laptop I’ve ordered it will spend a fair bit of time at my desk plugged into my Ethernet, but it would be nice to leave that protruding card at home when I take it elsewhere, however that will leave a big gap in the bottom of the laptop. I could get an extra USB card to fill the gap, but don’t really need any more. Could you make a simple cover, or null expansion card, to slot into the space to fill the gap? Will everyone need 6 functional expansion cards?
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Makes sense but for $9 probably makes sense to just populate the unused slots with another USBC pass thru.
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I would go for a network to USB-C adapter or a small usb dock and not change the expansion card at all. The expansion cards are simple X->USB-C adapters after all, so there is no advantage of the expansion card to external adapters if you don’t plan to carry them with you laptop
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You could also use the 3D model files Framework has available to print your own spacer card to go in the space. If you don’t own a 3D printer yourself there are online services that will 3D print things for you.
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Back in the old Commodore Amiga times, there was basically the option to hack your machine optionally with so called Turbo card. What would happen, if we could have a Framework motherboard with PCI-E expansion possibility, where we can buy an single prepared CPU+GPU combo card with some extra memory slots, and when you insert this expansion card, basically disables the old motherboard soldered CPU+GPU, and turns into the old machine into a upgradeable workstation. Of course this change would be significant if Framework motherboard has soldered cheap APU combos by default.
More crazy idea would be the dual usage of both worlds: I mean switching between the two, or combining the motherboard and the expansion card calculation power together.
Or keep internal computing on and put an AI accelerator in the module. May need some cooling outriggers, though.
I would think expansion cards are too small. This is more of an Expansion Bay idea for the upcoming 16"; perhaps you should repost there.
That’s not possible anymore, but Framework does literally sell easily swappable upgrade motherboards…
It would be pretty neat to have a modern version of Latitude ON though, something like a CM4 in the Expansion Bay using the DP in, but like I mentioned in the lapdock thread I don’t know if it could interface directly with the screen.
At least the expansion bay int the 16 has an edp connection to the screen, the harder part would be getting access to the keyboard and mouse through there.
Is it a direct connection? I assumed there would be some sort of mux involved.
There is probably a mux but it has not been confirmed. However a connection through a mux is pretty much a direct connection if the mux is switched to that input.
Hi all,
New forum user here, I’ve been planning on doing this for a while but haven’t had the time until now. Currently I’m using a Logitech Unifying Receiver, but its sticking out like any other regular receiver. My plan is to take apart an existing USB-A expansion card and Logitech receiver (I have an extra of both) and directly soldering connections together and packaging it back into a flush sitting expansion card. If possible, I’m planning on reusing existing expansion card case instead of 3D printing a new one. Though I’m concerned about signal interference and if using the metal case would affect it negatively.
My question to the community: Has anyone else done this? I’ve briefly searched the forums and haven’t found anything on this. If so, any tips and tricks for a fellow community member?
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Literally found this just as I posted lol
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