Minimig PCB run - interest thread

[koaftder]

I'll purchase one if Dennis is getting a cut of the profit.

[koaftder]

Does Dennis get any money for this?

[koaftder]

I'm glad to see that there is a lot of support for Dennis getting some much needed reward and i'm glad to see that there is some progress towards getting a product out. This grassroots stuff really makes it a lot more fun. Count me in for a board, and for whoever is making this possible, please allow us to pay over, or donate a portion so that we can get Dennis fat as a cow on pizza and thoroughly drunk.

[koaftder]

The joys of sourcing parts. Here today and gone tomorrow, or worse, company lies about having them on hand and missing deadlines.

[koaftder]

CD32Freak wrote:
Here is an interesting link for those who want to make their own minimig PCB: Make PCB's with a laser printer :-D

Been there, done that. Heat and pressure often smudge the traces on the qfp tracks, thin tracks often get lifted off the board when removing the wet paper, etc. Applying heat and pressure uniformly is difficult, the larger the board, the higher the incidence of over pressure and heat on some spots, under pressure and heat on others. Some traces smudge, others don't stick. Getting the top and bottom layer aligned right will make you go postal.

Yes, the minimig is pretty simple, but I wouldn't bother trying to ghetto fab the board. It would be cheaper and less stressful to get it done right.

[koaftder]

Nusim wrote:
We have a small run of original (Minimig ver. 1.0)bare PCBs.

The only change is the silk screen just to identify the source for quality control.

I stress that these are suitable only for the serious electronics dudes, experimenters and people interested in 1st wave prototypes. They will involve smd work and so are not for the faint hearted!

We are expecting them in next week. As soon as they arrive we will post a link to a paypal shopping cart.

Pricing will be;

£11 - Shipped U.K.
£13 - Shipped Europe (Airmail)
£15 - Shipped USA (Airmail)

We will also try to source the original ST memory and make those available as well.

Any profit will be donated to the TeamAros Kickstart II bounty! :-)

That is good news, but I wouldn't buy the PCB without the parts kit as well. Buying the PCB and then sourcing the parts from 3 or more vendors would make the cost prohibitive in shipping alone...

[koaftder]

Xenepp, why no feedback?

[koaftder]

TheMagicM wrote:
when you say we need to supply the components, what components would that be?

It's just a bare pcb with no parts on it. You'll need to buy the fpga, cpu and other supporting components your self and assemble the device yourself.

[koaftder]

Hardware isn't the main issue with usb, thats the easy part. The difficult part is the software. You better get crackin on that usb stack. I know I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole. I've done enough usb development to know better.