Uconsole motherboard in the pipeline?

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I’ve noticed in the odd chatroom, talk of Clockwork working on a new Uconsole motherboard that will be available mid 2026. Yet no details anywhere… Just a rumour ?

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it’s just a rumour, clockwork doesn’t really do communication as you know, for the picocalc we saw some pictures from shenzhen makerfaire posted by other people and then a few months later it dropped without any warning, if there’s an updated motherboard I’d expect similar communication

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Yea there is a new motherboard soon but it from @lululvlv he is working on it you can check his discord for updates

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Since the mainboard is pretty long in the tooth there’s plenty of room for improvement.

  • USB-C data.
  • Switch the CM3 slot for CM4 (this would break a lot of mods but would give CPi the most flexibility).
  • Remove the WLAN from the mainboard as it’s only used for CM3-native modules.
  • Easy: Internal SD card slot, put the external slot on USB. Hard: Mainboard NVMe.
  • USB 3 on the CM5.
  • Stop using DSI-0 entirely; drive the screen via HDMI somehow and make mainline useable (bonus: this makes UEFI useable).
  • Fix the screen backlight flashing on startup.
  • Make the mainboard work at lower voltages to fully use 18650s.

Of course I personally would much rather the CM3 slot stay so I can keep using my lovely HackerGadgets mods, but if it had NVMe I might trade them away…

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