For purchase anywhere?

[nmjohnson]

Are you or any vendor making these?

[KrutavShah]

The design is not complete yet, and is not ready for manufacture.

The goal is to make it so the PCB will only cost a few dollars, or in other words, be very low-cost. It's only for personal use, not commercial, which is why this open-source design is provided to the consumer only for the purpose of finding a manufacturing service to manufacture one of these for personal use.

JLCPCB offers PCB fabrication for a really low cost, so that may be a service you might consider using when going to get this design manufactured.

[nmjohnson]

I understand. Well whenever it's ready I would like to test it out so let me know!

[nmjohnson]

Not sure what is left to be done, but found some mxm-pcie adapters on taobao that might help with pcb design:

https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=522047566709 https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=657479724335 https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=650710516276

Some of them have decent pcb photos where you can see the traces, others not so much.

[KrutavShah]

Thanks for the insight. The current status of the project is that the card is working and everything is close to complete, all that’s left is finalizing power delivery to add safety measures in the event of a short-circuit or too much power gets pulled from the PCIe slot. These protection measures are important and I think it would be best to get those into the design, making it safer than the adapters produces by other companies that may be lacking these measures.

[nmjohnson]

That's awesome! Can't wait to see the final product.

[Tretecou]

Hey there, I would like to ask if the current design supports a graphics card that can draw up to 90W - such as the tesla p6. Thanks in advance!

[KrutavShah]

Hey there, I would like to ask if the current design supports a graphics card that can draw up to 90W - such as the tesla p6. Thanks in advance!

Hi, the design in this Github page is intended for use with MXM type A cards because the power comes from the PCIe slot. The slot can supply about 66W of power on 12V line, so you may not be able to use MXM Type B cards with this particular adapter unless running them in a lower power mode.

However, we are working on full x16 MXM risers for desktop and server that have much greater power availability and support MXM Type B cards without limitations. We'll have updates on it on our website later these coming months.

[Tretecou]

Thanks a lot! I will be waiting for it - one more question, whats the best place and way to learn electronics engineering, electronics repair on a semi professional level without actually attending a dedicated school for this topic? Since im pretty young to actually go to a school like this and ive also missed my opportunity to visit a low level engineering school, are there other ways? I sometimes cant find enough time or get easily distracted when learning something. Plus i dont know what to learn exactly, ive missed a lot of beginner knowledge by not going to the type of school. Thanks a lot for any kind of answer! Happy designing :D

[rosedalerk]

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[KrutavShah]

Thanks a lot! I will be waiting for it - one more question, whats the best place and way to learn electronics engineering, electronics repair on a semi professional level without actually attending a dedicated school for this topic? Since im pretty young to actually go to a school like this and ive also missed my opportunity to visit a low level engineering school, are there other ways? I sometimes cant find enough time or get easily distracted when learning something. Plus i dont know what to learn exactly, ive missed a lot of beginner knowledge by not going to the type of school. Thanks a lot for any kind of answer! Happy designing :D

Hi, I apologize for not responding. If you’re still interested, I actually started this project without much knowledge of electronics design. Essentially, I had an idea, and knowledge of electronics repair and some of the basic concepts. The idea for this project came up when I had an MXM GPU but no way to actually use it. I want to emphasize that this project was not easy by any means, and I learned a lot just by doing. Concepts like signal integrity become especially important when dealing with high speed signals, so for issues like these, I read articles and watched videos that show proper practices and how to use tools within the design software to achieve the desired result. This project was started over a year ago and has experienced many major revisions as I made important realizations with each one.

I’m glad to hear that you’re interested in learning electronics, and you too can certainly begin the journey of learning how to design your own electronics products as you go. It won’t be particularly easy, but you’ll learn more with each revision and gain important experience. My best advice is to come up with what you want to make, making sure that your idea is still feasible. Once you have an idea in mind, you can draw it out, write about it, and begin your research. If you’ve made it to that point, you can begin designing in various different CAD software like KiCAD.

Hope this helps you, and thank you for asking!

[Tretecou]

no biggie

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