| houkime | placed MOD and AUX LEDs. Tomorrow will place KBD LEDs | 00:34 |
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| houkime | and also tomorrow will fix the keyboard keys order. Good night folks. | 00:46 |
| Oksana | Wow, MOXVAR vs tranzorbs sounds interesting. Is it possible to replace the former with the latter at home, post-purchase? Or is it something that cannot be fixed once a manufacturer makes the choice to go cheap? These things sound tiny... | 02:08 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | Oksana: it IS possible to replace the former with the latter at home, post-purchase | 02:28 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | the gain however is questionable. MOX age with each surge and start leaking current but that will have impact only when the device stops detecting buttons or the like | 02:29 |
| Oksana | DocScrutinizer05: Sounds nice. Is it possible to do so after MOXVAR stops working? And how to see that is stopped working? For example, capacitors usually have a hole in them when they have broken down entirely/exploded. | 02:30 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | yes | 02:30 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | MOX simply sinter together and thus turn from VAR to resistor | 02:30 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | the footprint for MOX should fit tranzorbs usually | 02:32 |
| Joerg-Neo900 | dang, sorry, connection problems | 02:33 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | MOX simply sinter together and thus turn from VAR to resistor | 02:34 |
| DocScrutinizer05 | the footprint for MOX should fit tranzorbs usually | 02:34 |
| * Oksana guesses that multimeter would be able to tell the difference between varistor and resistor, should such a question arise; but diagnostics can be fairly difficult for multi-component devices such as mobile phones | 02:38 | |
| izabera | ohai | 11:57 |
| izabera | my boyfriend is a bit of a nerd and likes his baseband modems isolated from the rest | 11:58 |
| izabera | thus he invested in the neo900 | 11:58 |
| izabera | i'd like to buy him a modern smartphone, or something close to it | 11:59 |
| izabera | and i'm considering the upcoming librem 5 | 11:59 |
| izabera | what are your opinions on it? | 11:59 |
| izabera | i'm not as much of a nerd and i might need a dumbed-down explanation | 12:02 |
| enyc | izabera: asknig good qusetion but wait for a bit ;p many peopl ecom and go on here | 12:16 |
| houkime | ok, prepared a better transform from bareboard N900 scan to UPPER. After a bit of hunting down stray numbers discrepancy went down to around 0.02mm, should be ok for keyboard LEDs. | 14:03 |
| houkime | this transform used 6 holes in the pcb as anchors | 14:04 |
| houkime | more in line with rest of the transforms i use (but for some reason for bareboard i previously used worse one) | 14:05 |
| houkime | (transforming between different sources of geometrical info and making things align is probably the most tedious part of neo900 job) | 14:07 |
| houkime | (you basically need to work simultaneously with v1 board, with case scans, with wpwrak's contact microscope shots, and with optical shots of N900 original board) | 14:09 |
| houkime | (and also you need for UPPER to align connectors and stuff with LOWER, and kicad STILL doesn't have grouping to fix in place translation of one part relative to another) | 14:12 |
| houkime | measured positions and angles of kbd leds. time for placement. | 16:00 |
| houkime | KBD LEDs placed | 16:43 |
| houkime | ok, now to fix a keyboard layout | 16:44 |
| norly | houkime: thanks for your work! | 18:42 |
| houkime | norly, appreciated. | 18:44 |
| sixwheeledbeast | +1 | 19:07 |
| houkime | Keyboard layout fixed and double checked. | 20:30 |
| izabera | if i can bump my question from 10 hours ago, what do you guys think of the librem 5? | 21:54 |
| xmn | I think the L5 is fine. Nothing crazy or really horrible, I do like that they give your the choice of Baseband. I think the pinephone is making this phones hardware harder to justify though. | 21:59 |
| bencoh | wait, which one is "harder to justify"? | 22:06 |
| xmn | pine is 200 runs everything L5 runs (I think) and even may have hardware switches. | 22:09 |
| xmn | So the L5 | 22:09 |
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