Minimig PCB run - interest thread

[marauderII]

assembled, A1000 type case

[stopthegop]

I'm in for two boards

[beakster2]

I think those prices are excellent!

I promise to buy one of the kits for £20 as soon as they come out.  I enjoy soldering and don't do it much these days so look forward to building the kit.

As far as the ports go, I think its easiest just to have them on the PCB.  People can easily buy/make little extension cables for their own custom cases.

-Chris

[countzero]

I'ld like to know more about the seller and preferably some reference from more long time users that you're a real and solid person before I order anything.

40 UKP (80$ ?) is a great price for an assembled unit, however I don't see any possibility that you can pull it off at that price. For how much do you think you'll get a spartan3 chip ? Add to that the 68k, PIC and ram. I think you'll need to double your prices for both the assembled and kit.

[Xenepp]

I'll be able to get a much better idea about prices once I can show the design to my guy, but I can tell you the estimated £20 would not include parts, other than posts and simple bits, it would just be the PCB. This is another thing that will influence cost of the preassembled PCBs since I've not looked into cost of components (nor avaliability).

You'll never make an assembled one for £40 not without a huge production run.

I have my hat here... and anyone who knows me will know I am capable of eating it.

This is why I was hesitant to give a fixed price. The PCBs would however be assembled by me, which is why those would be pretty limited.

Also, depending on the hat, might I suggest burger relish? Really goes well with tweed.  :lol:

Joel

[alexh]

It's the upfront cost which is the thing putting me off, to make say 200 boards, populate them, quality test them, ship them.

You are looking at £10,000 up front :-(

That is also assuming that the Minimig sources that have been released are actually functional (Which I will be trying to prove this weekend.)

[mongo]

The XC3S400-4PQG208C alone is about $22 in 100+ quantities.

[Xenepp]

£10,000?? Where are you getting your boards done?!

My guy does my boards as small runs, so costs nothing like that. I estimate £20 for a bare unpopulated PCB based on previous runs I've done.

I think it may be a good idea to move the ports to the back of the PCB with the MMC slot on the side or front. This way, people can decide if they want to have built on ports or they can just wire them to the PCB and put them where they want in their case.

So what does everyone think about the size of the PCB? If I moved the ports to the back I might have to make the board wider than it is tall to properly route the traces so I suppose it really depents on port placment prefrence.

Joel

[billt]

Hows about making it easy to fit into a Mini-ITX case? I'm not saying easy as in what you'd need to do to mount an Efika in a Mini-ITX as I don't want to be drilling new holes and crap like that, but something with screw holes in the correct places on the Minimig PCB, connectors at the back, add standard power supply connector if needed, etc. to minimize our own personal case fabrication requirements. I'd also put the MMC slot on the back panel for easy access instead of tearing apart the case to swap if you ever need/want to.

[motorollin]

I definitely want one, or possibly more. I would be prepared to pay up-front to aid costs for the production run, provided I was guaranteed a refund were there not enough interest to warrant a production run.

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moto

[cv643d]

I am definitely interested in a populated board!

Look into making it Mini-ITX size, 17x17 cm. There are lots of cases available for that motherboard size. Making your own case should not be priority at this point I think, more important is getting the motherboard out!

Also putting pin-headers for joystick and other connectors is a great idea! Keep us informed.   :-)

[Rudei]

I'm interested in this concept too.

Rude!

[gazgod]

I'd be intereseted in a couple of boards.

As for layout, ports on the back would be great and things like the sd slot on ribbon would be good to, as long as the board width is less than 5.5"  I would be happy, then it could be built into a external disc case like Mavmiga and myself did with his Efika. Here :- http://bbrv.blogspot.com/2007/07/macmigaefika.html

Gaz


http://www.lincsamiga.org.uk

[skurk]

Sign me up for one, maybe two assembled boards.  Ribbon cables or not, I'm in.

[Xenepp]

It looks like there is enough interest to do it, but I'll not be taking any payments until I have the PCBs in hand. It's far less complicated that way.

Once I have the design done, the price is set and everyone's happy I'll start making a list of those who wants one. Obviously, the more that want them, the cheaper it will end up being.

It's a good idea I think to design it to fit standard Mini-ITX cases. This way, people have a lot of options with how they'll case it up and I can make an Amiga type case to Mini-ITX specs, giving me a firm guideline. Nano-ITX is too small to route traces for all those connectors.

Thing only drawback is that it'll get bigger. The beauty of Minimig is that it's so small but then it doesn't lend itself well to casing with ports everywhere.

So what does everyone think about that?

Joel

[persia]

I'd be in for an assembled one for 40 quid.