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having (custom) FPC with exactly the right lengths will also help a lot.

here's a pic of the messy situation before doing this adjustment. it will also be much better to be able to (dis)connect the connectors when they're on the other side.

spent the second half of today working on the second rev of the MNT Reform Next motherboard, where i decided to bring the connectors to the back side and also reorder them to minimize crossings (and mess) of the flat cables in the device in this upside down orientation. also made the board 5mm shorter to solve mechanical conflicts between the motherboard cables and the keyboard edge. a lot of work, but it'll pay off for sure.

this also means that i had to mirror (flip) all pins of these FPCs.

@aparrish oh neat :3

@voxpelli i started outer worlds recently but it didn't really stick. not sure why, maybe i should give it another go. i completed the original wasteland (on commodore 64)

@aparrish hmm i have the trilogy bundle thing, i started the first one a while ago but it was kind of tedious... so maybe i should look into ME2 or 3

@lynn yep, i think i've completed sr returns and have an open game of sr hk, but i think it's hard to compare them because SR is so much older...

@FlatFootFox yes, already completed that, one of the greatest games i ever played!

is there something like baldur's gate 3, but like, a sci-fi/future or contemporary setting?

@eqe there's a dip switch that you can use to break the connections to the SOC UART. and if turning off the debug UART in LPC firmware is not enough, you can also remove these 2 0Rs

@mindfulvector hey so i was already looking into this last night and checked in with crowd supply, apparently you are already in contact with their support about this? (tanner from CS) they're definitely the right people to help you with this, so i'd recommend to contact their support again if not done so. we (MNT) can't do anything further about it because we are not fulfilling these orders. in any case i'm super sorry this happened to you and hope it'll be resolved quickly.

most important changes written down here https://source.mnt.re/reform/reform/-/merge_requests/74

ok, 5x test PCBs ordered!

@mspro was ist denn nur los

i finished MNT Reform Motherboard 3.0, can you spot all the changes? tomorrow final checks + test PCB order

@kusma @Truck cool!!

OK so it looks like my talk from the recent KiCon Europe 2024 in bochum is actually online now, just not on the KiCad channel. here it is if you're into talk stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LN2-vh3P0c

@bnys ohhh what

hmm still (almost) no videos from KiCon europe 2024 published

@BobDendry Debian Unstable with MNT Reform specific patchstack (mostly from collabora)