Our campaign funded within the first 48 hours!

We greatly appreciate the support from all backers. Now, it’s time to see what’s next for LeafKVM.

Manufacturing Plan

We are currently working to deliver LeafKVM as early as possible while maintaining compliance, quality, and reliability.

Antenna Matching

LeafKVM uses a built-in antenna, and its characteristics can change significantly once integrated into the enclosure. Therefore, we are working with our partners to perform antenna tuning and RF optimization on fully assembled units with enclosures. This work ensures stable wireless connectivity, improved real-world RF performance, and a basis for upcoming certification tests.

CE/UKCA Certification (RED / RoHS)

LeafKVM will go through CE and UKCA certification, including RED for radio equipment and RoHS for restricted substances, to be able to ship to backers in the EU and the UK. Certification takes time, so we are preparing the submission now rather than waiting until the campaign ends.

CNC Enclosure Iteration

We are fine-tuning the CNC enclosure, which are mainly adjustments to minor details around interface ports. The overall size and product form factor will remain unchanged. These changes will make the device look more harmonic.

We will upload the device 3D model on our website once the revised enclosure data is finalized, so users and developers can refer to the latest mechanical design.

Small Batch Trial Production

We have already started production of the first 50 units.

This small batch is the first step in ramping up manufacturing capacity. It allows us to validate the complete production flow, including manufacturing, assembly, testing, aging, packaging, and quality control.

By running this trial batch before full-scale production, we can identify and fix process issues early, improve yield, and make the later production run more stable.

Open-Source Efforts

As promised, we will open-source all source code before you get your device so that you can freely hack. However, we need to clean our code for a proper release because it is overloaded with several stuff. Our roadmap roughly includes the following items, and we will do it step by step:

• Kernel source code (already released!)
• Rust bindings to several underlying libraries we use (mainly Rockchip proprietary libraries).
• Buildroot external tree (br-external) for building the whole system, including the kernel and rootfs.
• Web frontend code, which is forked from the JetKVM project under the GPL-v2.0 license.
• Core Rust application code responsible for capturing the inputs, handling backend requests, and the on-device GUI.

The initial steps of our open-source efforts are as follows:

Release Rockchip Bindings

As our efforts are open-source, we’ve released the Rockchip binding, on which our source code relies. This includes bindings to several Rockchip subsystems:

• mpp: Rockchip media processing platform.
• rga: Rockchip 2D image processing library.
• rkcrypto: Rockchip crypto library.

These bindings are not only useful for LeafKVM, but will also benefit future Rust developers who intend to develop video processing applications on Rockchip processors. We will also release these bindings into standalone crates shortly.

Bake Docker Images

For a smooth development experience, we have built Docker images to facilitate further development. This includes:

• lazymio/leafkvm:base The base image that contains any essential packages to build the whole image
• lazymio/leafkvm:dev An image that slightly tweaks the host environment to make it more friendly for developers.

We will soon update documents about the development.

Connect with Us

We are reachable via i@kvm.rs or Discord. Please feel free to join the discussion and ask any questions you have about LeafKVM. We are always happy to chat with you!