TERES-I is Open Source Hardware Laptop designed with KiCad Open Source Software EDA and running Ubuntu. In GitHub repository https://github.com/OLIMEX/DIY-LAPTOP you can see the hardware files and Linux build scripts.

1. Developing an Open Source Hardware Laptop
with KiCAD
Tsvetan Usunov, OLIMEX Ltd
FOSDEM, Bruxelles 2018

2. $whoami
OLIMEX Ltd – for 27 years we design
and produce development tools,
programmers, boards, devices, IoT,
small Linux SBC. Out of 600 products
half are with OSHW licensee.
FOSDEM 2018

3. FOSDEM 2018
Open Source Hardware Laptop design goal:
- modular design
- elegant shape
-easy to assembly
- easy to repair and upgrade
- small weight
-long battery life
- low cost spare parts
- Hacker’s portable laboratory: component
tester, DSO, Logic Analyzer

4. FOSDEM 2018
Development started November 2015
and took about two years.
We had to select plastic parts, LCD, SOC

5. FOSDEM 2018
First we had to design several other products to evaluate
the SOC and FPGA parts before we were able to
integrate them in the laptop.

6. FOSDEM 2018
August 2016 we already had the first prototypes
and proudly presented them at TuxCon.

7. FOSDEM 2018
February 2017 we had table at FOSDEM,
where we presented complete hardware, but the software
was quite immature.

8. FOSDEM 2018
October 2017 we built small initial lot and sales started!

9. FOSDEM 2018
Where we are now:
Software: Ubuntu with Mate in usable state, soon to
expect Armbian with mainline Linux Kernel.

10. FOSDEM 2018
Where we are now:
Hardware: working on new board with RK3328 (good
tip from Armbian member) which will allow upto 4GB
RAM and more performance

11. FOSDEM 2018
Where we are now:
Plastics: we have friends working on re-drawing 3D
plastic parts so people can 3D print their own version
of the laptop:

12. FOSDEM 2018
Where we are now:
Portable Lab: working on integration with Sigrok

13. FOSDEM 2018
It was natural choice to select KiCAD as tool to
complete this OSHW project.
- We choose to work with the daily builds, so to have
access to all new features as soon as possible.
- This leads sometimes to funny results as to may not
open your work from yesterday ;)
- Windows and Ubuntu binaries lag a lot, people try to
open our files but no success.
- KiCAD need to re-think how to make everything
consistent when you save your work and backward
compatibility.

14. FOSDEM 2018
To summarize
- This is one of the most interesting projects we ever
worked on
- Now I have in my hands my dream laptop made up
to my taste
- We learned a lot while we worked on it
- Many people love that they have base to tailor and
implement their own dream machine

15. FOSDEM 2018
Questions?

16. FOSDEM 2018
Thanks!
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