2010/1/9 Qole <[email protected]> > > On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Timo Pelkonen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> 2010/1/7 chemist <[email protected]> >> >> Hey folks, >>> >>> after reading several posts about the crap backpanel I came to the idea >>> to ask the community for a redesign ... >>> >> > <snip> > > >> 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... >>> >> > <snip> > > >> >>> Regards, >>> Ruediger Schiller >>> >>> -- >>> >> >> I am pretty sure that nokia won't send a model of theirs... >> > > It would be great if they would! > > 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? > > > 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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