Yeah pick and place on two PCBA's will be hundreds of dollars per board for just placement. Pick and place on hundreds of boards will be a few dollars per board. Even this kickstarter is considered small quantities. making several hundred of them is peanuts in comparison to board house production runs!
Bryce
On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 7:43 AM, Wouter Weggelaar wouterweg@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks Stefan,
That was not at all clear from a glance through the page. Normally I expect a section what the money is for and this page does not have that at all.
I was just wondering why it needs 22000 instead of, say, 1000 for two prototypes. But if they need a pick and place machine set up, I guess this number is needed to pay for the machines minimum batch.
Wouter
On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Stefan Wagener wageners@gmail.com wrote:
Agree,
He also wants to have the boards populated automatically to get away from hand-soldering all the SMDs. Yes, the board layout and files are
available
for free (open source) on his website including the source code (open source) for the Arduino he is using. Actually very transparent operation and yes, a simple email to Mike about his project will result in a very quick response back.
73, Stefan, VE4NSA
On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 7:54 AM, skristof@etczone.com wrote:
I don't think that $22,000 dollars is that much money for a start up company/project. If they want to produce these things in large
quantities
then they will need to invest in equipment or hire someone to do that
for
them.
I'm sure that the hardware is already available if you want to build one of these on your own. But I'm not that smart. I'd need to spend a year learning more stuff about computers and APRS protocol before I could
even
think about putting one of these things together.
This will also be good for science teachers (like me) and radio clubs that want to help science teachers introduce students to technology
without
a lot of hassle and expense.
This seems like a worthwhile project to me.
Steve AI9IN
On 2015-11-05 07:32, Wouter Weggelaar wrote:
Can someone tell me why this needs 22000 dollars when most of this
project
is already available? What am I missing here? I can for the life of me not see why this would take this huge amount of money.
Wouter PA3WEG
On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 4:24 AM, Stefan Wagener wageners@gmail.com
wrote:
Thanks! Yes, supported it already. It is a great project especially for schools and groups. Please support it and make it happen :-) Stefan,
VE4NSA
On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 8:45 PM, Steve Kristoff skristof@etczone.net wrote:
Please consider backing this Kickstarter project. It's an open source
APRS
tracker for weather balloons. I have no stake in the project other than
a
pledge and I'd really like to see the project go. Check it out:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1250163085/tracksoar-aprs/posts/1397521...
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