On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 8:04 PM, Andreas Grapentin <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 07:43:07PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> [...] it's $USD 2000 a time or so to make 10 >> samples. i have 9 available working 2.7.4 samples and 9 microdesktop >> v1.7 pcbs. > > So it's 200 $USD for one card plus microdesktop pcb?
yyyeah roughly. i forget how much the microdesktop samples were but it's nothing like the cost of the A20 samples. DHL will be... $50 maybe $70, i'll look it up. > That is manageable. > Let me know where I should transfer the money and I will do that ASAP. > >> if you have a usb-to-uart (usual FT232 thing will do) and >> a soldering iron that would help. > > yup, plenty of those around. awesome. one less thing for me to do. i'll take a photo so you have the pinouts. just fyi if you look at the microdesktop longways with the 20-pin 2.54mm DIL nearest to you and left-right it's GND in the front right corner then TX/RX to the left of those, i forget which is which. >> also if you can arrange pickup (e.g. DHL) that would be really >> helpful. > > I am not sure what that entails - could you elaborate? I was assuming > the card would just be shipped to my home address. I am not familiar > with dhl pickup, and a quick search didn't produce anything useful. google "DHL scheduled pickup taiwan": http://www.dhl.com.tw/en/express/shipping/pickup.html mm.... depending on the bank account i might be able to just arrange shipping: i'll have to talk to my partner to find out which bank account has a means and method of paying DHL. >> very important: i will mark them as "sample of negligeable value" on >> the cards themselves and on the customs form. > > good, let's see how that goes. I'm consistently having trouble with > packages that go through customs; must be on some kind of watchlist. if you're receiving a lot of stuff, regularly, and it's not a business address then yeah they might get edgy. that being the case it might be better to use Fedex. Fedex are much better: they handle customs payment on your behalf and make damn sure to actually do what they promise: deliver on time. http://www.fedex.com/tw_english/pickup/ l. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
