well theres full size SD and an ethernet card powered by something other than realtek. But you seem to have a lot on your plate already.
Trackball/stick might be cool as well, for people that dont like touchpads.
Of that list, the RS232/etc. looks the most useful to me. A nice, convenient way to handle consoling in to whatever random equipment I find myself in front of. Bonus points if I can break it out to an 8p8c keystone, use any random Cat5e cable, and tell it what pinout I need.
Will there Mini-Display port, Card Readers, Charging Port, Display Port, Mini HDMI, Mini-DVI, Micro DVI, Digital Video Interface (DVI), expansion card?
For me, top priority would be rp2040 adaptater and STEMMA QT daughter board
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I think you are misunderstanding what I said relating to the RP2040 card, the RP2040 is the āmotherboardā and the STEMMA QT board for example is the ādaughterboardā
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A concern for me is port quantity. Charging, keyboard, and mouse is already three slots. That can be solved with splitters or hubs, but itād be nice to have enough ports on the machine itself. The keyboard and mouse arenāt very demanding, so connecting them to the same expansion card to free up more ports would be ideal.
I really liked the idea of an expansion card with internal USB slots to keep small dongles out of the way.
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Iāve gotta say. Reading through these comments is hell. I wish replies to these posts were more like reddit, where replies sort of get grouped together and you can roll them up. It would be a lot easier to see all of the different ideas.
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i can see a request or opportunity for COM port Modules for those field engineers enthusiasts ect. business and home lab enthusiasts dont have to rely on just a cable + comport to usb
as a thougt. neesh market but still valuable.
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An NFC reader and a FIDO key. I love my Yubikey nano with a push button when I need to press to authenticate or decrypt.
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Partner with Logitech to make Logitech Unifying Receiver Expansion Card.
Maybe a 2-port hub (internal unifying + external USB 3.0)
Obviously āinternal unifyingā means a integrated chip, not a rigged-on Unifying receiver.
USB WWAN. IR module.
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Logitech also has a new receiver design called Bolt. Would love to see this version as well.
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Whatās the advantage of one vs the other?
I am kinda tempted to use one of the internal usb ports and put it entirely inside the case like I did on the t480s
Just pre-ordered the new AMD Ryzen 7 mainboard and Iām stoked to finally upgrade from Intel 11th gen. Iād like to re-use the Intel mainboard for a NAS.
I figured since Iām switching to DDR5 for the AMD mainboard anyways, my Intel 11th gen would be perfect for this application. Itāll be more quiet and use less power than a refurbished server meant for a data center. Down the line, I could even use my 55Wh battery for built in protection from power loss. Just need the 65Wh batteries to come back in stock.
To that end, would a TB4 ā mini SAS/SATA module be possible? Iāve found some small, 4 bay NAS offerings from OWO marketed towards Mac, but I want more drive bays/customization. I would even give up two of the TB4 ports for separate power and data transmission.
I strongly believe the home/medium-size business NAS market could be shaken up by Framework customers reusing their mainboards with the right modules/cases.
A full sas controller in a module is probably not realistic but you could hook it up like an egpu.
But Iād use the nvme slot instead, more reliable and much cheaper. The case and power supply probably be the more complicated part.
it might not fit?
If we make it fit the expansion card would be significantly larger, to account for the space required to house the complete receiver (together with plastic housing).
That do sound sort of overkill however. Maybe we will try something else.
Just take the housing off, the internals are extremely small. Also they run off 3.3v just fine and pull a bit less power. I was not able to get it to sleep at all though so Itāll allways pull the same ammount of power which is not a lot but it is.
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I know how much people love the expansion cardsā¦ but after looking at the 3 rows of cards of the 16 inch model, I kind of imagine just having a screw-in slot on my frame.
A whole expansion card for the headphone jack? I would like just to screw in the jack input and having a more solid/unified case surface. Now it kind of looks like a super lego.
What about taking the space of two expansion cards to install a second ssd? The expansion cards look kind of amazing, but since I do not plan on switching them constantly, I would appreciate if the expansions were just internal with an optional port slot on the frame.
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I see that Framework 16 would have audio jack not as built-in port, but available as an expansion card.
What would be nice to have is split audio, with separate headphone output and microphone input, instead of just combo TRRS audio jack.
This way I would not need to take audio splitter with me when I am using headphones and lavalier microphone (instead of headset).
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How difficult or costly would it be for an audio jack module with an usb-c connection too?
Seems a bit wasteful to use a full usb connection just for the audio jack and physically the audio jack and the usb-c port should fit fine. I am guessing there will be similar issues to the double usb-c port module idea, where we could loose PD and video alt mode in the usb-c.
If the cost of adding the usbc port while loosing those two is not very high comparef to just the audio jack, it mightbe worth considering.
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I know doubling the port is, letās say, a work in progress, in fact if you read it I mention it on my own post. But the main problem seems to be doubling it while keeping the PD and the video alt mode. Doubling it for data transfer seems to be trivial.
That is why i am saying that adding a usbc port next to the jack, even if it is only for data transfer (as in no PD and no video) would be nice.