mutantC v2 - A HandHeld for everything

Description

You can make your expansion-card like GPS, Radio etc and attach them. You can access all the ports of the pi and the back part is attached with 4 screw. It can hold a 4" or 3.5" touch screen. Also have a physical keyboard attached via USB. It don't need any custom image of Raspbian. You can use vanilla Raspbian and install the LCD driver, that's it.

Details

This not another UMPC that you might think interesting and forget about it after a month. This UMPC is one of a kind, this will fit in your PROJECT to improve it.

For Example you made a temperature monitoring of your room, Then you need a screen to show the temp on. mutantC can be use there.

Smae for your Home Automation, Program your MCU on the go, Garden monitoring, Solar Panel monitoring, Use it as controller for your RC car and So on.

All of this can be done using the mutantC because it has support for adding your custom extension. It have a full keyboard to code or giving cmd to your project.Make the extension and control your project. Then change the extension to fit yor another project.

mutantC uses regular 18650 rechargeable battery and you can charge it using the USB C port in the device. That battery can last 5 hours with light use.

Another interesting use of mutantC is YOU CAN RUN THE EXTENSION BORAD WITH OUT POWERING THE PI. That way you can make a Extension that can keep the log in the SD card and when you power up the mutantC to see the log. That way you can run the mutantC for 10 hours.

Files

display_v2.3.zip

Display PCB garber file

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body_bottom_v2.6.stl

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main v2.5.zip

Main PCB garber file

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rigth_part_v2.6.stl

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display_bottom_v2.6.stl

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Components

1 × Raspberry-pi - zero/2/3/ 4

1 × 4/3.5/3.2/2.8 inch gpio LCD

2 × 1mm pitch with 16 pin - FPC-connector

1 × 1mm pitch with 16 pin - FPC-cable

6 × 22 mm, M2.5

Project Logs

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Testing mutantC v4 power circuit
rahmanshaber • 02/12/2021 at 12:02 • 0 comments

I am testing the new power circuit for v4, this black PCB are from PCBway and that helped me to quickly test out the new changes. The production was fast and i got the PCB within 3 days.
I had to make the v4 because of 2 reasons, the power supply is not enough and a lot of tiny mistake i made on the scolding pads. now those pads are bigger and easy to solder.

But V4 and v3 are not compatibles in the size so there is no drop in replacements.
Wanted to share this v3 industrial look
rahmanshaber • 11/16/2020 at 05:12 • 0 comments
You can order a prebuilt mutantC-v3 (not officially)
rahmanshaber • 09/25/2020 at 17:01 • 0 comments

As mutantC is a open source hardware and I am not capable to supply you guys one by tindy or other way, so kwlodraczyk took the job to supply you guys one by his own.

I saw this post in Reddit and that made me so glad so I wanted to shear.

https://www.reddit.com/r/umpc/comments/izgjsh/were_selling_a_small_batch_of_mutantc_v3s_75/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
mutantC v3 - Full feature Overview
rahmanshaber • 09/08/2020 at 10:43 • 0 comments
Checkout mutantCv3 sneck peek
rahmanshaber • 09/07/2020 at 12:15 • 0 comments
A new project page for the mutantCv3
rahmanshaber • 08/13/2020 at 05:21 • 0 comments

I think a new project page hackaday.io will be much better way to do it. I will v3 related things to this project.
please folow this page in hackaday https://hackaday.io/project/174289-mutantc-v3-modular-and-powerful-handheld-pc
mutantC v3 PCB and surprise from PCBway
rahmanshaber • 08/07/2020 at 12:22 • 2 comments

After a long time i ordered the PCB from the PCBway and those came up and i tested them. All worked great and soon we will get the V3.

I am really impressed the PCB quality and the the accurate dimension of the PCBs. Also loving the color option they give. I am liking the Yellow color more then any other. Also i was nervous about the Thumb-stick PCB as it has a 1mm cut out for the FPC cable. But it is no issue for the them. It came up just great and also fits with the 3D parts.

I am really grateful the help it get from the PCBway. There work to help the DIY project like mutantC is really great and hopefully they will be beside us in future.
You can order your different colored PCB from here https://www.pcbway.com/ starting from 5$. All the PCBs from mutantC can be printed with that starting price.
firmware for v2 is updated with new features
rahmanshaber • 07/16/2020 at 07:01 • 0 comments
Cyril Hrubis did all the work and submitted two merge request to add this improvements
- Added long press to key to continuous output of the keys. Before this user have press the key each time to get more key press.
- Added long press hold to power off the pi with sending HID power-off code to pi to safely shutdown.
- Reduced the CPU speed to send less battery usages.
So build your mutantC and enjoy this features.
https://gitlab.com/mutantC/mutantc-v2/-/merge_requests/4
https://gitlab.com/mutantC/mutantc-v2/-/merge_requests/2
V3 is comming
rahmanshaber • 07/13/2020 at 05:48 • 0 comments

I have stop developing the expansion broad, as i thought v3 will have those features i want to add.
Here is a pick of the pcb
Prototype Expansion-Board
rahmanshaber • 05/25/2020 at 06:11 • 0 comments

I am designing a prototype expansion-board. This will fit nicly in that space and i can do future expansion-board circuit testing there.