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lucie lukas "minute" hartmann

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CEO of MNT Research. OSHW laptop MNT Reform: https://mntre.com | https://shop.mntre.com | FOSS, ARM, OSHW, FPGA, Amiga, RISC-V | batcave, cyberpunk, industrial […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.social/@mntmn, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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lucie lukas "minute" hartmann @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5h

@vitorpy.com yeah, @josch has been working on a trackpoint mod on and off :D maybe he can show some of the progress so far

lucie lukas "minute" hartmann @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5h

we also have a small version with a trackball https://shop.mntre.com/products/mnt-pocket-reform

MNT Pocket Reform Laptop - MNT Research Shop

MNT Pocket Reform is a 7" mini laptop that is fully open hardware. Customizable, upgradeable, repairable!

shop.mntre.com

lucie lukas "minute" hartmann @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5h

BTW if you're looking for an open hardware, repairable laptop made by a small team in berlin with no venture capital, maybe MNT Reform Next could be interesting for you: https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/mnt-reform-next

MNT Reform Next

A new 12.5" open hardware laptop that is future-proof, modular, and highly performant

www.crowdsupply.com

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lucie lukas "minute" hartmann @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5h

i appreciate how framework are doing a bit of involuntary marketing for us today 🤝

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lucie lukas "minute" hartmann @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 6h

@theawesomerandomness @cas quick turn on test reveals 2 qualcomm USB devices on the port where i hoped for EDL!

Bus 001 Device 047: ID 05c6:9500 Qualcomm, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 048: ID 05c6:9501 Qualcomm, Inc.

lucie lukas "minute" hartmann @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 8h

@theawesomerandomness cc @cas

lucie lukas "minute" hartmann @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 8h

it's real: first MNT Quasar processor module prototype, assembled today by @theawesomerandomness! this will allow the usage of qualcomm qcs6490 and hopefully two other pin compatibles in current and future MNT open hardware laptops/computers.

mnt quasar module. a roughly square green pcb with sodimm shaped gold fingers sitting on a black cutting mat. the module sports a big steel cage that has a cutout revealing qcs6490 and ram chips.

same module, flipped on the back. there's a square hole in the pcb where a part of the processor shield pokes through

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lucie lukas "minute" hartmann @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

(eins kann aufatmen, fand doch noch ein okayes)

lucie lukas "minute" hartmann @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

schneidbrettrecherche komplett verdorben vom so ubiquitären wie unangenehmen wort saftrille :(

lucie lukas "minute" hartmann @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

ARM Torment Nexus T-1000

lucie lukas "minute" hartmann @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

also, characterize all connectors in multi pcb systems and automatically do some sort of TDR simulation

lucie lukas "minute" hartmann @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

thoughts from the rabbithole: it would make sense to be able to add data like typical current and frequency to kicad nets, and to have some sort of semi realtime field solver mode that overlays a heatmap and warns of crosstalk, plane cuts, stubs etc. in my head it looks like blender's […]

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lucie lukas "minute" hartmann @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

@hailey (it's running on an ARM server so no cross building required)

lucie lukas "minute" hartmann @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

@hailey hey i set up a CI build for linux-arm64 flatpak for tangara-companion, what do you think? not sure how to keep it automatically in sync with github though https://source.mnt.re/reform/tangara-companion/-/jobs/13460

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lucie lukas "minute" hartmann @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

i'm very out of the loop @ tangara. can i already connect a keyboard and play text adventures like guild of thieves?

lucie lukas "minute" hartmann @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

sudden blast from the past: remember harddisk "breather hole"? :0 they shouldn't cover that

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lucie lukas "minute" hartmann @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

forbidden harddisk burrito nomz

page from an intel paper titled "mitigation methods", where they try to shield usb 3 harddisks with metal foil to reduce their broadband and 2.4ghz emissions

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lucie lukas "minute" hartmann @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d

—mnt pocket reform charger board v2 samples ordered (finally)!
—mnt quasar pcbs are here, parts ordered

lucie lukas "minute" hartmann @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d

MNT community member "O.o" made a small python tool to have a rainbow animation on your MNT Reform or MNT Pocket Reform keyboard without resorting to heavyweights such as OpenRGB: https://community.mnt.re/t/keyboard-backlight-rainbow-animation/3903

Keyboard backlight rainbow animation

Here’s a simple utility to jazz up your Reform and make it look a bit more like the photo in the MNT Research webshop 🙂 Tested on MNT Reform classic. I suppose it works with other models too.

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lucie lukas "minute" hartmann @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d

this is so amazing, something i've always dreamed of: being able to fab a run of your own chips. but i don't have a chip design ready till december, my pipeline is already overfull (and i don't have any chip design experience except FPGA/verilog, so that would probably be 1000 buggy chips). but […]

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lucie lukas "minute" hartmann @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d

instead of AI i just want a realtime GPU accelerated 3D EM field solver where i can import my PCBs and connector assemblies. that would be extremely more useful

lucie lukas "minute" hartmann @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d

visiting zack again for advice

zack in front of a whiteboard with a pcb cross section and some signal rise time vs trace length calculations. subtitle: and L over eight and L over five and L over four, L over 10

lucie lukas "minute" hartmann @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

> When the signal propagates through the PCB trace, the low-pass-filter effect slows down the pulses’ transition times

> Due to the lossy nature of the channel, the data eye at the receiver input may be closed

lucie lukas "minute" hartmann @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 7d

also, a quick reminder that the RCORE V2 mini campaign on @crowdsupply ends in 32 hours, that's your chance to get this MNT Pocket/Reform powerup paid in USD and shipped from a US warehouse, at a discount before the price will go up a bit […]

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lucie lukas "minute" hartmann @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 7d

yay, it's that time again, MNT September 2025 Update is out, written by @holo_memory. lots of fun stuff, check it out: https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2025-09-30-september-update.html

MNT September 2025 Update

Our MNT September was serious and fun, exciting and a lot. Here are the deets:

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