Open Hardware
The Always Innovating strongly believes and supports both the open source movement and the recent open hardware efforts. The Touch Book and the Smart Book bring a lot of innovation and wouldn't have been possible without the contribution of thousands of free developers or companies who honestly participate to this echosystem and give back to the community.
Therefore, you can freely download part of the
Touch Book / Smart Book main board schematics. As we have decided to share these valuable informations, we would love to get some feedback from you as well as share with the community any improvment you could have done.
Want to create your affordable custom tablet?
If you are interested in getting the whole design (including gerbers and mechanical design) or developing your own customized Touch Book-based design, we can to provide you first-class support as well as early access to our software and hardware developments.
By selecting one of our value options below, you can offload your R&D by leveraging the work we have accomplished and we are ready to share with you:
Silver offering
Full schematics + BOM list + kernel and all Linux drivers + electrical design (Altium) + two days of consulting + 5 demo boards + all hardware/software bug fixes and enhancements for the Smart Book
Gold offering
Full schematics + BOM list + kernel and all Linux drivers + electrical design (Altium) + casing design (SolidWorks) + three days of consulting + 5 Smart Books + all hardware/software bug fixes and enhancements for the Smart Book
Platinum offering
Full schematics + BOM list + kernel and all Linux drivers + electrical design (Altium) + casing design (SolidWorks) + five days of consulting + 5 Smart Books + negotiated pricing of BOM list + suppliers contact list + introduction to key contacts + all hardware/software bug fixes and enhancements for the Smart Book
A few additional comments: with the platinum offfering, you get everything we have done. You should consider it as a full knowledge transfer from Always Innovating to your company. It took us many years to develop those devices and even if you put your best 10 engineers on a similar project, it will take you a very long time to get a mature product.
