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What are the dimensions of the actual card (not the pcb)? / no mechanical drawings
Saw the Framework on HN the other day, very interested. As someone who is into electronics, I'm in love with this whole "design your own expansion card" thing. However- there are a couple of snags I've ran into-
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It isn't immediately obvious how far the USB-C plug should stick out of the card. This would be very helpful info for using different parts for the USB connector, which is nice for flexibility (i'm thinking this guy should allow for taller components) and sourcing.
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There aren't any mechanical drawings of the card itself. The 3D files are great, but a diagram with all the critical external dimensions including stuff like the rail would be very handy for designing a case from scratch in whatever tool we want.
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How tall are the feet of the laptop (for any potential sticky outy bits)
This extra documentation would be awesome, I've got some ideas that would be really helped out.
This is such an important open issue. I might be interested with doing stuff with these cards and I've done PCB design professionally but with the limited amount of info it is more difficult than it has to be.
There should be more measurements in this repo. The above mentioned dimensions are missing/unclear but also the outer dimensions of the laptop bays are not provided.