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Reference designs and documentation to create Expansion Cards for the Framework Laptop

21 mentions on Hacker News by 16 people: 1 story, 20 comments · first 2021-06-10 · latest 2025-07-16

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  1. …with their Expansion Cards, which are basically just a card form factor USB-C. Licensed CC-BY-4. https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/ExpansionCards
    comment by jauntywundrkind · 2025-07-16 · in I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)
  2. …interesting project. You can get more info about the expansion cards on the dedicated github repo: https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/ExpansionCards
    comment by mog_dev · 2024-06-28 · in Frame.work laptop now available in Denmark, Finland, and Sweden
  3. …have the card flush for use like an expansion bay as well as for data transfer to/from devices. https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/ExpansionCards/tree/mai...
    comment by gravescale · 2024-04-15 · in Framework's software and firmware have been a mess, but it's working on them
  4. …can hack against. Strongly considering a Framework 13 as my next computer. - Expansion cards: https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/ExpansionCards - Expansion bay: https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/ExpansionBay - Input modules:…
    comment by pveierland · 2023-05-03 · in Framework Laptop Cupholder Expansion Card
  5. The designs are available on GitHub under Creative Commons licensing: https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/ExpansionCards We've seen both community developed Expansion Cards and other device makers starting to adopt Expansion Cards.
    comment by nrp · 2022-11-07 · in Framework Laptops now have 4 Thunderbolt 4 ports
  6. …and pinouts: https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/Mainboard * Expansion Card reference designs: https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/ExpansionCards * Embedded Controller firmware: https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/EmbeddedController On…
    comment by nrp · 2022-06-01 · in Framework laptop water damage repair attempt using partial schematic [video]
  7. …within the physical dimensions, it should be possible to make your own soundcard expansion card. https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/ExpansionCards
    comment by botdan · 2022-02-01 · in Framework Raises $18M Series A
  8. A USB-C slot with publicly-available and open-source CAD and specs on GitHub ( https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/ExpansionCards ) is basically the least proprietary format ever created.
    comment by matthewmacleod · 2022-02-01 · in Framework Raises $18M Series A
  9. Yep, but without the proprietary part. We have released reference designs under Creative Commons: https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/ExpansionCards
    comment by nrp · 2022-02-01 · in Framework Raises $18M Series A
  10. …of somebody else's bays and in the same breath deny these is at best misplaced nostalgia. :) [1]: https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/ExpansionCards
    comment by DHowett · 2022-01-05 · in Framework Laptop with Ubuntu Review
  11. …proprietary. They're just USB-C, and if you mean the overall shape of them, then they're still not: https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/ExpansionCards is available under CC-BY.
    comment by josephcsible · 2021-12-27 · in FrameWork laptop is Tom's favorite laptop of the year—and completely unexpected
  12. …it with an actual normal dongle if you'd like, but also the schematics are completely open ( https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/ExpansionCards ). This is very very different from the way Apple does things.
    comment by dwohnitmok · 2021-12-27 · in FrameWork laptop is Tom's favorite laptop of the year—and completely unexpected
  13. Framework's hardware is entirely open source ( https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/ExpansionCards ) so you can buy parts from any third-party that wants to produce them.
    comment by jaywalk · 2021-11-02 · in Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if internal drive failed
  14. …modular ports), the schematics are available [1], so anyone would be able to make new ones. [1]: https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/ExpansionCards
    comment by andersonvom · 2021-09-22 · in The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used
  15. …opens this up for other companies to make modules From what I can tell, they already did that: https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/ExpansionCards > USB port module with an integrated Logitech wireless mouse receiver This guy seems to be…
    comment by tantony · 2021-09-22 · in The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used
  16. …not totally proprietary, they've even released designs CC-BY that you can use to make your own: https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/ExpansionCards
    comment by azdle · 2021-09-21 · in The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used
  17. …for the expansion cards. They have CC-BY licensed reference designs of the expansions cards ( https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/ExpansionCards ), and employees are in the forums answering questions and giving pretty forthright design…
    comment by cge · 2021-07-25 · in Framework Laptop gets 10/10, fully replaceable
  18. …released reference designs and documentation for the Expansion Card system under an open license: https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/expansioncards
    comment by nrp · 2021-07-23 · in The Framework Laptop is now shipping
  19. …device side, we've published open source reference designs to let folks develop their own cards: https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/expansioncards
    comment by nrp · 2021-07-23 · in The Framework Laptop is now shipping
  20. …open source licenses for the Expansion Card system for people to be able to develop their own ( https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/expansioncards ). Our embedded controller firmware is also open source, and we'll be posting the…
    comment by nrp · 2021-07-23 · in The Framework Laptop is now shipping