DIY cellphone
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DIY cellphone
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#2It's like Raspberry Pi for cell phones...
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#3Finally, a karma free phone. I wonder if people will start designing cases made using a 3D printer for the next generations of these DIY cell phones.
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#4"Cellular connectivity is provided by the SM5100B GSM Module...". Meh. No way a DYI. It's like you assemble your desktop PC from pieces like motherboard and power supply and say that you built a DYI PC.
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#5"Cellular connectivity is provided by the SM5100B GSM Module...". Meh. No way a DYI. It's like you assemble your desktop PC from pieces like motherboard and power supply and say that you built a DYI PC.
You did in that case. It'd be ridiculous to try and build a cellphone, the not use the all-in-one chip solutions that are out there.
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#6"Cellular connectivity is provided by the SM5100B GSM Module...". Meh. No way a DYI. It's like you assemble your desktop PC from pieces like motherboard and power supply and say that you built a DYI PC.
Sure, but it would be a cool project to build up a nice phone environment using this module.
If anything, this would be more akin to saying "I'm using hardware features on my microprocs to do this neat thing". Not amazing engineering.
On a related note, does anyone know if we can get these modules to do data? Or if there's a cheaper version of these modules?
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#7"Cellular connectivity is provided by the SM5100B GSM Module...". Meh. No way a DYI. It's like you assemble your desktop PC from pieces like motherboard and power supply and say that you built a DYI PC.
You did in that case. It'd be ridiculous to try and build a cellphone, the not use the all-in-one chip solutions that are out there.
Actually it is not ridiculous. There is a project which is much more a DYI then this one. Enjoy: http://wush.net/trac/rangepublic (OpenBTS).
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#8"Cellular connectivity is provided by the SM5100B GSM Module...". Meh. No way a DYI. It's like you assemble your desktop PC from pieces like motherboard and power supply and say that you built a DYI PC.
Sure, but it would be a cool project to build up a nice phone environment using this module. If anything, this would be more akin to saying "I'm using hardware features on my microprocs to do this neat thing". Not amazing engineering. On a related note, does anyone know if we can get these modules to do data? Or if there's a cheaper version of these modules?
I did a quick peek at their electronics schematics. Well, believe it or not, but it looks like designing a laser-cut custom wooden case for this phone took much more effort than the electronics part. So, returning to my analogy: you are building a DYI PC because you laser-cut a custom case for the off-the-shelf parts you purchased. If this is the level of DYI to be amazed of on this site, I'm completely confused.
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#9"Cellular connectivity is provided by the SM5100B GSM Module...". Meh. No way a DYI. It's like you assemble your desktop PC from pieces like motherboard and power supply and say that you built a DYI PC.
Since it seems to be backed by MIT, I also kinda hoped to see an independent GSM stack and not just some COTS baseband attached to a COTS MCU.
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#10How to shrink a basestation into a Raspberry Pi. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCcKgrzbix4 It's not the handset, but rather the basestation. But the concept is similar. I saw this working. It works. And there are open-source versions of the handset software too, although not as mature as OpenBTS.