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Is Proton C Schematic/PCB opensourced?

Open chvango opened this issue 5 years ago • 4 comments

Hi QMK maintainers,

Is Proton-C PCB opensourced? Just plan to upgrade my atmega32u4 based keyboard to an Arm based MCU, found Proton-C may be a good example since I'm going to use QMK for the incoming Arm based keyboard.

I learnt about Proton-c here https://qmk.fm/proton-c/, and read it through, did a little bit of search and failed to find anything related to Proton-C's Schematic or PCB. If Proton-C is indeed opensourced, please add a ref to the https://qmk.fm/proton-c.

chvango avatar Jul 02 '19 11:07 chvango

Can you please add details as in what you mean by a PCB being open source? As per my knowledge, the software needed are maintained in GitHub as a public repo. This allows people to make request for features needed and personally add to through pull request.

Happy 2 Help

rs9899 avatar Oct 29 '19 14:10 rs9899

Can you please add details as in what you mean by a PCB being open source?

Available schematics and pcb files and licenced under "CERN Open Hardware Licence" or some other open licence.

As per my knowledge, the software needed are maintained in GitHub as a public repo. This allows people to make request for features needed and personally add to through pull request.

The question is about the hardware.

https://github.com/qmk/qmk_hardware contains footprints and symbols for the proton-c board (but no design files for the proton-c itself) - this should also be listed on the proton-c page :).

crazyimp avatar Nov 09 '19 18:11 crazyimp

I don't think Proton-C PCB is open source. There're other Arduino Pro Micro alternatives that are open source.

fi0 avatar Nov 16 '19 11:11 fi0

@chvango wrote:

Is Proton-C PCB opensourced?

I'm wondering this as well. Actually I would expect this from an Open Source project like QMK, but I was unable to open any of the files in this repo with KiCAD. I'm though also just starting with KiCAD.

@fi0 wrote:

There're other Arduino Pro Micro alternatives that are open source.

Ok? Which? The Elite-C seems even less open sourced as I haven't found any source code related it (compared to what is in here).

xtaran avatar Apr 28 '21 22:04 xtaran