Another Proposed Minimig Production run.

[tonyyeb]

I want a fully working MiniMig. I'd be willing to pay upto £80 inc P&P. I was on the original 10 list for Joel / Xeneep but have not heard anything since he said he was too busy to get them done.

Does anyone know a company that can do the PCB, mount the chips etc... and get ACTUAL prices for say 100, 200 or 300? Not a made up price or guessed price or "it will be £500+ each!"... ACTUAL prices.

Then if the price is reasonable or a price that people would pay, we could setup a deposit account (paypal or whatever) and people could order. When the total reaches the amount needed we order. If after 6 months the total isnt reached, everyone gets their money back. that way no one person has to lay out £2000 or whatever and also no one would loose their money.

[tonyyeb]

doghouse wrote:
That is, take the payment up front with the promise to deliver in 90 days, then use it to actually make the machine! According to the book, when they started taking orders, they only had a few prototypes and hadn't started production.

Seriously, I will be willing to pay (some) money up-front as a deposit. Ideally, I'd like one Minimig already built, and one board (so I can see if I am competent enought to build one myself!)
:-)

Great minds think alike!

[tonyyeb]

Chubbyrain wrote:
I'd pay up front to help get the ball rolling.

We need prices first obviously. if it turns out to be £200+ then less people will want one i guess no matter how many people say "Ill pay a million pounds for one!!!!"

[tonyyeb]

nBit7 wrote:
I don't like your chances of getting some one too hand solder up any real quantity of boards for a cheap price.  I personally won't do it for less than AU$100 per board.
If the quantity was high enough I would consider doing it with production tools: pick and place machine, reflow oven, wave solder.

A company I used to work for has these machines sitting idle most of the time and I am fairly sure they would let me use them for a fee.  Tooling (ie. solderpaste mask) would be around AU$600.

If you are serious then lets get this confirmed or get a price. Lets get this thing off the ground. We need firm prices first.

[tonyyeb]

whiteb wrote:
Alright guys.......

You want costs........ (And I expect some of you will pass out).

a PCB, fully populated with *JUST* the surface mounted components, thats FPGA, Ram, CPU, Pic controller, Serial driver, 74HC4060,Capacitors and Resistors. component cost included (SUPPLIED) is US$105.  Included is the AU$25 for someone here *PER BOARD* to professionally solder the components.

What remains (cost will be on top), is all the through hole stuff, all the connectors (PS2 x2, Video, RS232, Joystick ports, MMC, power, Reset button, and Menu button).  But I suspect thats something a blind monkey can solder with a 25,000 volt welding unit. (Joke).

So those who wanted US$30 fully populated, i can only say LOL

Anyone not unconscious, Let me know.

Hello? In my post i asked for the cost fot a company to do all the assembly, pcb manuf etc... Is this the cost for YOU to do it? If so then DUH! Of course it will be mega expensive.

[tonyyeb]

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