Feature request: Optional FPC extension + second PCB #8
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First of all I want to say thank you for making this availible. I think it's great that people can upload even just anything to a PCB fabricator and have a low cost professional solution. Hats off to you sir.
I don't really expect that this will be addressed being that this is has not been updated for a while, but due to the first PCB like this I've owned having been the Super Storage v3 by echo10, I can't help my fondness of the FPC cable extension. It's nice to be able to mount the SD card slot somewhere different than the solder points on the bottom of the SNES classic motherboard.
I know I've seen at least one shop surface with a closed source PCB offering the same functionality of the Super Storage v3, but I wonder if this functionality could be incorporated into this project's minimal design.
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but this seems like a minimalist PCB intentionally. As such, I would imagine it would be preferred to the author that the base PCB remains open ended to either use case: optional FPC extension & PCB, or use as currently designed.
Thinking about this, if it's possible to design this way, maybe the FPC pads should be underneath where the SDcard slot is mounted on the main PCB. Idea here is, that way an end user can't have both sd card slots mounted at the same time. Either chose the base PCB for the microSD slot location or choose the secondary PCB to mount the microSD slot, then solder the FPC connector in place of where the slot would go on the base PCB.
I'm going to attempt to learn some cad in the meantime to see if this is something I can pull off on my own. If I do make some progress I suppose I can fork this and see where it goes. I just like the open source nature and small footprint of your design. Idea is pitched with intent to keep what some would consider an unnecessary feature an option without forcing it or compromising the minimalist nature.