Kite : DIY Modular Smartphone Platform
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ม.ค. 2018
- Kite is the world's first DIY Modular Smartphone kit. Using this kit, common electronic components (sensors, raspberry Pi HATs & pHATs, batteries, antennas) & a 3D printer, you can build the many different devices that have all the features of a smartphone, yet customized to meet your exact needs. We have many 3D printable designs to get you started.
This video shows a few examples of customized devices built with Kite: a phone with a scrolling LED badge (+flashlight) on the back, a phone with OLED displays at the back for notification and retro gaming, a phone where the back is adapted to become a Braille keypad, and finally a phone that runs of AA batteries and includes an SMA connector for external antennas. Watch the video for all the details!
We are aiming to make Kite available soon on Kickstarter. For more information & updates (including early bird information), please subscribe at www.kiteboard.io/contact .
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He did something google could do(or didn't want people to have) :D
They did try; the market research data Google received just showed that most of the people who were polled couldn't be arsed to assemble their own smartphone. It proved to be too niche of a market to be profitable for them, so they scrapped the project.
EvroNetwork ikr Google creepy asf
@@ChozoSR388 if it's too tough to slide some modules into a metal frame, I am worried for those people.
@@brendansmith9677Yeah, I feel ya; I was kinda chimpin' at the bit to get ahold of a phone I could customize when I found out about the project. It would have been the smartphone equivalent of a DIY PC. And I love tinkering.
@@brendansmith9677 You have to understand their target market, only a minority of people will understand how to configure phones and the cost will probably be more than potential profit, meaning they will lose money
This is how the world should become, not just for profit.
"Victors should speak of the world how it should be, not how it is!"
Aizen.
For profit is fine and even admirable. Its the aversion to open sourced hardware sales. The troll like jealousy of anything that could possibly be patented. Anything smacking of monopolistic tendencies. IE: John Dear, Apple, Maytag, GE and many others. If your buisness was house building, you could not demand that only through your company can repairs be done. But for some companies who have lawyers stacked three stories high there is no limit to the snakeoil they can sell.
I'm kinda sad to see this failed on kickstarter I really want one
Hi Michael - please write to me at shree AT isquaremobility DOT com . Let's see how we can help. Thanks!
@@KitePhone I really want to build myself one too. It is so cool. Actually it would be amazing if this phone had Linux working. Man, please retrieve this project as a Linux phone. I can help as I'm working in a Linux distro team named as Merkür Foundation.
Just build one there is so much you can do!
I really hope that you revisit this concept again. Timing/marketing/packaging is everything.
Wonderful. Probably the first open mobile platform with full fledged compute, connect and location functionality. Developers can build rich mobile and IOT solutions through this platform.
Thanks! Rightly said!
Put big E-Ink module on the back!!!
YEAH!
This is awesome.. !!! Liked the way the different possible variants of phones were shown. This product is going to open a whole new world of personalised smartphones. Great work !!!
I know this video is 6 years old but this is the first time I have seen this and I am amazed that this did not catch on. I would love to see this reintroduced as it would really attract attention from people like me who are pro "Right to repair"
I don't understand why this hasn't caught on.
I haven't seen this, if I have I was too distracted to hold on the memory. I hope it sets fires. Soo appealing .
Probably has something to do with the major phone manufacturers not wanting us to be able to repair phones, but to just have to buy new ones when components fail. Like the non removable battery.
Thank you for your video, 4 years late but you are still giving motivation and hope to people
Dude great work! I hope your project keeps going- i know the arduino community would love something like this!
Oh man this is awesome, definitely going to be looking into this
What happened to this project? I was looking forward to it...
to be honest I had 2 cellphones with problems that made them trash. I kill one and use its parts for the other. I was so happy it was my first time doing something like that and when it works I was even happier. I think we should keep the values of keeping our products and fixing them.
Is it possible to install FreePBX/Asterisk and use Kite as a GSM/Voip gateway?
For example Raspberry on FreePBX OS, with installed GSM module would work perfectly for that.
On the other hand in mainstream phones it is not possible to intercept the audio stream from-to the GSM module and redirect it to installed applications.
How does Kite work for this specific issue?
This is amazing and revolutionary. Keep up the good work friend. 👍
Okay... you've got my attention. This is inspiring!
This looks awesome!
I think the LED badge would look really nice with diffusion plastic
Great design!
Amazing work!
Ohhh. This is so unique. I wish I could have any one of it. It is just out of the box thinking. 😍😘❤️
I wish to get a kit for my old moto g 2nd gen, the buttons are damaged so will be cool to build a new housing and put a bigger battery and new switches for the power and volume buttons.
this is amazing!nicee work
Good going all the best!!
Thank you!
Innovative! Good luck :)
I hope you don't stop with this project
There are people which would like yo have one of them, good luck!
This is stellar and a shame that I’m only hearing of it now! What’s been happening with this project? I’m super interested in building one of my own and hacking some of my own functionality into it.
what if it's just a presentation with modified actual smart phones inside? Seems to be a lot of development work already done, I doubt that.
Awesome!
Im searching for pinephone I got here
Nice work keep it up
Amazing and inspiring!
Great work.
after finally years it has happened even google couldnt even do it
THIS IS AMAZINg
Awesome work!!!
Thank you very much! Please help share this among your friends!
yess I can't wait to make mine rn
youree the goat man
is there any thing like this or are they still selling them ?
This is so cool!
Good job man
awesome dude
Great idea
Braille input is a smart choice
Maybe have a Braille output too (one that at least works like Tacttoo)
I'm hoping translucent screens take off
That might really bring modular devices into the mobile/wearable era
I'd have a combo of color LCD, color epaper, and color AMOLED
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is it still sold? i wanted one.
Holy snap this.guy really knows what he's doing
Excellent work Shree. 👍
Now this is a tech video!
This building block is a good base to create solution for smart phone terminal, for inventory, cash flow, RFID. you name it.
This would be great for people who are sick of small phones that are glass coated slipping out of your hands. And people who drive commercial vehicles that want something they can see as well as feel while in use.
Very interesting concept. I wish you all the best
Hi what is the CPU speed and RAM?
this is really cool stuff
Liked and subed interested in this for sure !
Are you giving away full kit or something......when does retail goes out
Nice Project! :D
Genius!
This looks really awesome...but it runs with rechargeable batteries or just AA batteries
keep going bro.
Is this project still available
Can I remove or modify the OS completely too?
Amazing!
Thanks you...
Sir what is the price of board in 2021 and how to buy it easily
This is so cool
support otg?
Great to see your work, Shree!
Channa Bankapur thanks a lot !
How to make it.?....full video plz!
Proud of u...Sreekumar...!!! Great...!
Thank you very much !
I tried to contact through the website but only allows business emails :(
Sir this is great
TBH.. That's cool 😮😮
Very interesting. I do hope you'll be successful!
Would it be possible to implement *hardware* switches for turning off camera, microphone, and GPS? That way you could brand it 'Privacy Phone' too.
Camera can be easily removed by the user. Same for microphone. To turn off GPS and modem, one could erase the Android modem partition.
I think he meant so they were quick and easy to switch on and off. Opening up the phone each time isn't quick. I'm not sure how quick it would be to erase and restore the GPS/modem compared to a flicking a physical switch.
This coming together of engineer consulting....im here for it. This is community.
@@rupert274 The easiest way to do it is to cut off power from modules :D Camera? Shut down power line, there is no camera anymore. Microphone? The same way. GPS / modem? Firstly, you need to make them a separated modules from the rest of device, and then use some switches to cut the power and signal from them when you want to be "incognoto mode". The biggest challenge is to put half of dozen switches somewhere in the smartphone to protect them from switching randomly during everyday use...
Got 18:9 display for this kit
where do i get the parts?
I think that your idea is very good and go's in the correct direction but the phone till now I to chunky and can not compete with newer phones on the market
Can you make one of this with a Raspberry pi?
If 3d Printers were much higher in proliferation, I could really see this spreading out, but don't give up this Idea has merit, however, maybe you should focus on small batch production and offering the kits in batches using the sales of one batch to fund the next, as well as take orders on several 'models' of common setups for the Kite Phone, at of course a slight premium since your team would be assembling them. Even in smaller sales numbers you can still turn a decent profit. This is definitely an enthusiast product, which makes it a little difficult to use kickstarter to fund.
How do I pay for the parts and where
How to make your kite phons?
Cool demo Shree..!
Thanks, Uma!
I literally live opposite to your invention centre at Netkallappa Circle, Bengaluru.
I want to make one!
How brother I was shocked that made a diy smartphone and building one it so amazing 👏
I was wishing to build one for myself
But it costs expensive. $$$$
But it requires a 3d printer and i can't afford or have the space for one
Where to order this?
please keep doing this
This is cool Shree. Looks very interesting!!
Thanks, Miraj! Any questions, please let us know...
very cool
This cool brother thanks I'm need DIY my old phone owner too
Omg so cool
Is it possible to make one with a electronic id card reader - this is needed to activate the device, and need to stay there. it could also be a micro sim, provided states gives this as an option - and only LTE connection? I hate electronic identification app, that you need a smartphone, and pay a normal sim connection, in an open-source community, it should be free connection, just a finger-print reader, and few apps, like ID, National Health service, tax service, bank service, personal wallet to make payments, passport service. and Global LTE provided by your country of origin valid globally. No phone calls functionality, but maybe some emergency calls only. What do you think?
excuse me sir i really want to know how you make this very great project i have searching 1year for this kind of project please reply i want to learn.
P.S. you are very great i liked and subscribed
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How do I get one
How to get it
you're awesome
do yo make tablets,pls i want one.
Do you sell these phones?
supper cool
this is interesting project