More assembled MiniMigs?

[Darrin]

nasty wrote:
There was there's a topic on here, think there was a set amount of 10 assembled MiniMigs (which all went within hours of the post) and if i remember right there is an unassembled pack thats was cheaper!

Then there was an update where the boards were received, but he no longer has the time to assemble them.  People who ordered the blank boards are still going to get them, but I still don't know of anyone offering a pre-assembled Minimig.

[alexh]

motorollin wrote:
I thought some assembled MiniMigs had already been manufactured and sold?

They were hand assembled / soldered by the guy who make the boards. At over 3hrs per board you can appreciate after he'd done 2-3 he realised how futile the idea was and gave up.

[Plaz]

See the latest info here posted on the 13th... the good and the not-so-good.

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=30516


Plaz

[Plaz]

At over 3hrs per board you can appreciate after he'd done 2-3 he realised how futile the idea was and gave up.

And that's probably being conservative on time. With experience and using basic tools on my bench, I would expect it to take a day or two working at it non-stop to assemble, test and probably complete some bug tracking. I don't have that kind of free time though, so my build will be an hour here and there spread out over serveral weeks.

Of course if you have more expensive equipment and can do more that one board at a time, I could see getting serveral done a day. Few of us have access to those kind of toys though.

Plaz

[nasty]

thank you for getting me up to par on that one

[denli]

ThomasML also planned to assemble some PCB:s
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=31216

[alexh]

All talk, no trousers.

The guy has no idea how much it will cost in terms of time and money to make a whole new PCB using BGA chips.

I'll believe it (and buy one) when I see it.