Re: [jornada] Found PCB Manufacturer

Noah:

That would be great. I was expecting to do the assembling as I have a way to DIY one-side surface mount - depending upon how many boards we were going to need.

How many boards can be made with the materials you have on hand?

-MarkG

Noah wrote ..
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 12:15:27PM -0700, John Ankcorn wrote:
>
> > The tasks that I see for doing more of the existing board:
> > 1) parts selection (verify DRAM manuf/timing/pinouts) [the
> > flash is pretty easy]
> > 2) assembly
> > 3) programming flash/test [requires a test jig
> > with the opposite side Molex connector since I can't
> > find out where the JTAG pins on the 720 motherboard are]
> > 4) distribution/user assistance
>
> John sent me some parts a while back, and I ordered a bunch of flash ram
> and all the other bits, and then got ambushed by life. I had a line on
> a
> place that specialized in low-volume quantities for things like that; I
> don't recall offhand if that included the PCB manufacture, but I suspect
> not. The total cost per assembled piece was, at the time, going to come
> to ~$125/board. I'm staring at several hundred dollars in electronics
> components as I type this, and my flash supplier has told me that they
> just got a new shipment of parts in. I can see if I can scrounge up the
> name of the assembler I was going to use, if you'd like.
>
>
> --
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Received on Wed Sep 29 14:09:57 2004