Hello. I wanted to let know that I got inspired by Reform and started to design a improvemed version, with features that are currently missing in the orginal.
Anyone who would like to join me to help, would be welcomed.
The main requirment while joining would be to have propper knowledge (minimally on technical level) in any of bellow fields:
and will to cooperate without expecting any sallary for it.
Hi, before you solicit work contributions from people here, please outline what exactly the improvements are. Keeping that secret from the beginning is kind of against the spirit of what we’re trying to do here. Also, listing skill requirements from potential collaborators seems weird if you don’t even introduce yourself or demonstrate the skills that you bring to the table.
Wouldn’t it be simpler to improve the existing Reform? 
The project is based on the already existing design 
I guess what I meant was, your original post seemed to indicate that you want to “fork” the Reform project so-to-speak, as opposed to contribute to the current project.
Forking is only done when there’s a good reason to do it, such as the project being dead in the water and going nowhere, or going in a direction nobody likes, or being led by someone nobody likes… because when a project is forked, it invariably ends up diluting the pool of talents for both the original and the forked project.
It would be better to contribute to the existing project, if you have skills that can help.
Either that or I misunderstood what you said
Sure, I could list some (with I currently remember) main conspect’s of my project and the changes I would like to do.
Note: I will use the term “main board” in replacement for carrier board (motherboard) to make the context more simple.
The major changes are:
no main board
each module will be dedicated to it’s role (for example: keyboard module will handle only keyboard thru a own controller instead sending the keys to the board)
This will allow the modules be more exchangeable, without any compatibility issues
bigger screen matrix (preferable minimum will be 17" or 18") for bigger eye comfort of the user
replacement of current batteries with one, more efficient and more safe one to prevent any potential self ignitions (with are common for Li-On batteries)
use of full 84-keys keyboard, instead the reduced 82-keys one as is current
adding a build-in WiFi and Bluetooth capabilities instead of extension card in a socket
attempt to maximize of amount of available cache memory for the MCU for better system performance
more efficient power management system
ports:
restoring the serial port (some devices may still need serial communication), like for example programmers, commercial devices, etc.
adding HDMI and DVI
adding USB (2.x, 3.X)
adding Ethernet supporting 100/1000+
It’s not exactly a fork due the amount of changes I want to do, with make it almost a different product.
Improving the existing project is also a contribution and would help Reform to stay away from becoming outdated (hardware wise)
It looks like a lot of what your want to change/improve can already be had depending on the configuration of the Reform you order. E.g.:
Are you aware that the cells used by the current Reform are LiFePo4, which is a very safe chemistry?
A full keyboard is 104 keys for me But to each his own.
My point being, if you’re limited to a crappy laptop keyboard, 84 or 82 keys is crappy either way.
My RK3588 Reform had onboard wifi. No Bluetooth though, but nothing a tiny $10 USB dongle can’t solve.
All you need is to get coding No hardware change needed.
My RK3588 Reform has dual display through HDMI.
My RK3588 Reform has 3 USB3 ports.
My RK3588 Reform has an ethernet port.
yes, but currently Reform requires too many cell’s with not as big capability each… it would be great to lave a lesser amount of them and a chip on the module that would manage them, instead that the chip is on the main board
Not exactly… standard keyboars are usually 104/105 keys, but to that count among others:
my idea is to make the support for both build-in to don’t make any ports occupied
actually, there `are chips that would replace an power adapter in the form as it is currently existing. The main difference would be foremost a smaller size of the casing because inside won’t be any complex converter.
Yes, Reform has a port, but I haven’t found anything about the ethernet port speed (there are several ones, same as several categories of cable with connect to it )
Additional things I want to implement would be possibility of SoC (System-On-Chip), so the SD card slot won’t be occupied