C.H.I.P SmartPhone

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Hackaday Challenge 2017 Section

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Challenge the project addresses

a few people wanted to do a cool project for class that deals with phones, but some may not know where to start.

How will alleviate or solve the problem that the project addresses?

This project alleviates some stress or struggles of building a phone from scratch saving time.

Discuss how the project might be world changing.

Its world changing in a way that it accelerates how the younger generation will build and design better open source phones with a decent foundation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The C.H.I.P SmartPhone is a completely open source DIY cellphone down open source C.H.I.P Pro linux module/computer.

You can use Python and Luma Oled libraries(or anything really). Below is a small example of it

Components

1 × C.H.I.P Pro

1 × TCA8418 Evaluation, Demonstration Kits, Boards and Modules / Evaluation Kits, Boards and Modules

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Ricardo Ferro • 05/13/2017 at 00:55 • 3 comments

Just received the PCB in the mail today and they look nice. Originally I was worried about the holes not lining up with the headers on the CHIP Pro, but they lined up great. Next thing to do is get a reflow oven or make one. Ill put the Re flow oven in a separate project.
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Ricardo Ferro • 04/30/2017 at 06:12 • 2 comments

Ordered the PCB via OSH park, now we wait :)
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Ricardo Ferro • 04/27/2017 at 18:19 • 0 comments

Rev 0.3 added through holes and labeled them.
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Ricardo Ferro • 04/27/2017 at 15:52 • 0 comments

Im now using Find Chips since this tool allows me to upload the BOM so that anyone can build this project easily from any vendor they want.
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Ricardo Ferro • 04/27/2017 at 15:26 • 0 comments

Added through holes for anyone that wants to mount a custom DIP
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Ricardo Ferro • 04/25/2017 at 06:32 • 0 comments

Redesigned part of the PCB to be smaller after I found out that someone was able to boot from the GPIO which is great since it saves money on IC chip and leaves the SPI available. The PCB is labeled "ChipSmartPhone Core Rev 0.2 "on GitHub. On rev 0.3 I will add through holes around the CHIPPro for adding headers and add a power button.
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Ricardo Ferro • 04/23/2017 at 23:27 • 0 comments

Ive added the component Digikey BOM on Google drive and will add it there, since i will be making some small changes on the components and its also easier to maintain and make changes. link will be included in the link list
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1An6kbbvmYNSk-XoKkjUbkHAP2uSu1uirWbv4Hm-ej0k/edit?usp=sharing
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Ricardo Ferro • 04/20/2017 at 23:54 • 0 comments

Finally added the dual sim+sd card to the board, it was slightly tough eggs.
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Ricardo Ferro • 04/19/2017 at 06:29 • 0 comments

Digikey didnt have a specific sim card tray for the pcb, which is fine since I decided to order a simcard+ micro sd card combo 2.2.h which should be great for the CHIP pro since it lacks a SD card. I couldn't find a library for it, which is fine.I'll just make a custom library based of an different similar existing component.
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Ricardo Ferro • 04/16/2017 at 06:30 • 0 comments

For the Chip Pro Peeps ! I'm just observing the new C.H.I.P Gr8 changes at the C.H.I.P forums,it made me second guess on ordering the Pocket CHIP for the long shipping time. In the meantime I made some design changes on the PCB design on the CHIP pro Phone to fit one board. I considered adding an IPhone 4 battery in it since i had a ton of them. I will upload the open brd files to github soon(I still have to figure out the lay out, adding extra holes, etc)

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Discussions

plugg.ee Labs wrote 06/13/2017 at 01:19

Did the CHIP boot from NAND and detect the SD? at least the storage is usable?

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Ricardo Ferro wrote 06/13/2017 at 03:33

Ill have to check that.

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plugg.ee Labs wrote 06/13/2017 at 00:41

Hi Ricardo, were you able to get the micro SD card working on the CHIP SPI port?

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Ricardo Ferro wrote 06/13/2017 at 00:55

The design works, but I don't know how to "program in kernel or build kernel" in order for the CHIP SPI port to boot off micro sd card. only other person iknow is @Alexander Krause (please make a guide or something lol)

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RX HMP wrote 05/05/2017 at 09:59

Following with interest. Still waiting for that google modular they talked about last year.

Should of tried salvage parts over new. Well thats what I am thinking when I build.

I have a few a6 chips and tablets on standby them screens are few pound. Now the board?

Im building a mini mill to help with pcb but wanted to do a phone or ages.

Good luck.

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Ricardo Ferro wrote 05/13/2017 at 00:41

You want a free board? Ill send you one for free.

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Alexander Krause wrote 05/01/2017 at 09:48

What exactly do you use to build the UI on the display? Do you also use the framebuffer device drivers?

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Ricardo Ferro wrote 05/13/2017 at 00:39

The UI I used python from scratch (I don't like programming,its hard). I used LumaOled drivers to drive the LCD

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