Hardware
Overview
The Kode Dot's design files, open for anyone to read, build on or manufacture: what is published, in which format, and where each board's schematic lives.
What it is
The Kode Dot is open hardware. The promise made on Kickstarter is that the design files ship with the product. This section is where the schematics live, one page per board, each viewable in the page and downloadable as KiCad sources. The board layouts are not published.
The modules are drawn in KiCad 10 and are published here as KiCad files, which is the open format for this. The Kode Dot's own two boards were drawn in Altium and are published as one PDF each, the sheet the design exports. TBD: the same two boards as KiCad sources.
The boards
| Board | Part number | Page |
|---|---|---|
| Kode Dot main board | KODE ToolKit 2026003 V1 | hardware/main-board |
| Kode Dot antenna board | KODE ToolKit Antenna 2026003 V1 | hardware/antenna-board |
| Maker module | KDMKR001 rev 1.0 | hardware/maker |
| Robotics module | KDROB001 rev 1.0 | hardware/robotics |
| Camera module | KDCMR001 rev 1.0 | hardware/camera |
| Mesh module | KDMSH001 rev 1.0 | hardware/mesh |
| F*CK module | KDFCK001 rev 1.0 | hardware/fck |
| Backpack interposer | KDINT001 rev 1.0 | hardware/interposer |
How to read a page
Each board page has the schematic in a viewer: scroll to zoom, drag to
pan, and use the toolbar to move between its sheets. The two Kode Dot
boards open in the browser's PDF viewer instead, with the same zoom. Under it, every sheet is also a
plain image you can open or save, and the KiCad sources are listed to
download. Open the .kicad_pro in KiCad 10 with the other files next to
it and you have the design on your own machine.
TBD: the licence the files are published under, and the manufacturing packages (Gerbers, drills, BOM, positions) for each board.