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Flex PCB breakout board for the PinePhone from Pine64

The PinePhone is an smart phone that supports the major Linux for mobile distributions. Pine64 - PinePhone

Get it in the Pine64 Store

Pine64 has put an awesome kit that includes the flex board and screws to secure it onto the PinePhone, you can get in this link PinePhone Breakout Flex Board

Expansion port

The PinePhone exposes power, an interrupt pin and an I2C port on the back of it. This Flex board was designed to be able to expose these pins outside of the PinePhone with even the back cover on.

As fas as I know there is no CAD files available so I had to measure directly on the PinePhone to create this prototype, and then use the method of printing the PCB in 1:1 scale for measures.

Paper PCB 1 to 1 Paper PCB outside

Pogo Pins

The way the PinePhone exposes power, interrupt and I2C port is via a set of 6 pogo pins that stick out on the back of the PinePhone.

Pogo Pins

Pogo Pins Pinout

The schematic from Pine64 is not very clear and does not states which I2C pin is which so this is still to be confirmed. Once I know which is DATA and which is CLK I will update the design. Pogo Pins

Flex board prototype

The protoype is meant to be mounted with screws using the ones already available in the PinePhone but longer screws will be needed to make a better attachment.

Flex Boards Positioning on the back of the PinePhone Flex Board sticking out Measurements

V2, version 2 with Pinout on the silkscreen

Pinout on Silkscreen

Updated board file (breakout_board_flex_v2.dip) and gerbers (breakout_board_flex_gerber_v2.zip) will be added onto the project.

Next steps

This is only 1 part of the prototype, the other part of the system is sensors boards that will attach to this breakout board and communicate using the I2C protocol. Prototype

Design

The design was created using DipTrace

Try it for yourself

You can get the flex board from OSH Park using this direct link to order the project.

Order from OSH Park

Remember to order it as a Flex Board!.

License

Released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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