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Review: dbrand skin for FrameWork laptop

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Stickers attacked to the underside of the laptop.

I love putting stickers on my laptops. But when it's time to move to a different laptop, what happens to all those cool stickers? After spending too many nights with a scraper and isopropanol, I decided to get a pre-cut dbrand skin. It'll protect the laptop and it will peel off in one piece, allowing me to preserve all my old stickers. I got the cheapest possible one - it's going to be covered…

More thoughts on adding NFC to the Framework Laptop

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I've got a fancy new Framework laptop. It comes with little expansion sockets - which allow you to plug in USB devices, HDMI ports, Ethernet cables, and all sorts. I want to add an NFC reader to it. So, step one was to find an NFC circuit board which worked with the hardware and was relatively small. Enter the ACM1252U-Z2. It works perfectly with Linux. It has a USB-Micro socket - but a…

Thoughts on building an NFC reader for the Framework laptop

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Small circuit board.

The Framework laptop has several little slots which can be used be used to expand the functionality of the laptop. They convert the internal USB-C ports into a different sort of port. For example, Framework sells an official HDMI card and Ethernet card: But the community have built their own SD card expansion pack as well as 3D printed snack drawers: Brilliant! I have an NFC-only…