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Modos-Labs / Glider

Open-source E-ink monitor. Mirror of https://gitlab.com/zephray/glider
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Glider's PCB availability #4

Closed vdp closed 5 months ago

vdp commented 6 months ago

Hi, sorry to bother you again! I'd like to ask about the availability of the board... By the way, could you please clarify the difference between mainboard and mainboard_lite? It seems that you've upgraded the KiCad projects to v8, and I don't yet have this version installed to try to figure this out myself. I guess 'mainboard' is the one that will get the adv7611 upgrade?

I watched the live video stream for @alex-a-soto's first FOSDEM presentation, and skimmed through the recording of the second one. As far as I understand the idea is to run a crowdfunding campaign later this year, but is there a way to get the PCB in, say, the next couple of months? It's not super urgent for me. Just asking, in case there is a plan to make a smaller test batch for early adopters or something like that... If not, I'll likely just wait for the crowdfunding campaign.

Or alternatively may try to order the PCB on JLCPCB, and solder it myself, though that will be my first experience with BGAs. I may try to get it assembled by them too, but I suspect it could be a bit pricey if I order just 2 boards(IIRC that was the minimum) assembled, because of their propensity to treat even Rs and Cs outside the most common values as 'extended' parts. The BGAs will also require their "standard" assembly service IIRC. But maybe the cost will still be acceptable, I'm not quite sure...

vdp commented 5 months ago

Alright, hopefully I didn't say something that sounds offensive, so I guess you either don't have time to reply or there are no plans, at least at the moment, to make just the board available for purchase.