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carrotIndustries / pluto

Pluto is a programmable digital watch that re-uses case and LCD panel of the Casio® F-91W. (Hardware)

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buy populated PCBs? #1

Open hackrid opened 8 years ago

hackrid commented 8 years ago

Hi,

is there a way to buy populated PCBs ?

vasev01 commented 5 years ago

I’m also interested in buying one populated PCB.

carrotIndustries commented 5 years ago

Don't hold your breath, but I might to a second board cut in the next few months. Stay tuned!

zigastegu commented 5 years ago

Compass is hard to get a hold off. It is a deprecated part.

carrotIndustries commented 5 years ago

Yeah, that's why I was planning on removing the magnetometer in the next revision. It's been more of a gimmick anyhow.

vasev01 commented 4 years ago

@carrotIndustries A year has passed since you announced a second board in few months. I'm wearing the original casio all the time hoping to be able to program it. Any positive news?

slavaaaaaaaaaa commented 4 years ago

I, too, am still holding my breath.

carrotIndustries commented 4 years ago

I'm really sorry, but I'm too busy with other projects to get a new pluto revision out the door.

Anyhow, this project is open source hardware, so feel free to organize make a new rev on your own.

If I'd do it, I'd change these things:

Drop compass (EOL and not that useful after all) and IR sensor (no firmware support)
Panelize the PCB to drive cost down
Make the Vcc capacitor 1µF

If someone really wants to pull this off, I can do design support and review on a best-effort basis.

Good luck!

wannessels commented 4 years ago

Could you have a look at my pull request? I'd like to order a batch of boards

tandy-1000 commented 3 years ago

im also interested in this

wannessels commented 3 years ago

I'll have a go at ordering new PCB's.

Anyone who's interested, can you tell me what and how many you're interested in?

Bare PCB's
PCB + components, unsoldered. You will need some sort of MSP430 devkit to flash the mcu
PCB + components, soldered and flashed. You will still need to desolder and reuse the inductor from a donor F-91W

vasev01 commented 3 years ago

@wannessels, the bare PCB is not a problem nowadays just drop a zip file with gerbers and fill in your address and you are done. However, soldering small SMD components, especially those VQFNs and BGAs, is the problem for many of us. So, my choice would be PCB with soldered components (at least CPU).

Thanks, Eugene.

lpasselin commented 3 years ago

How much would that be total for each popupated PCB including parts?

Edit: 2-3 boards here flashed ideally

slavaaaaaaaaaa commented 3 years ago

Depending on pricing, I'd go for somewhere between two and five populated boards.

tandy-1000 commented 3 years ago

id be interested in one populated board