Again, to reiterate, because I am still seeing evidence of
"complaints" out there, from people who believe this should be easy:
these are absolutely ridiculously tiny components and tolerances, and
the budget on which it's being done is equally as frugal. 0.05mm on
the edge of a PCB. 0.2 mm wide pins, with 0.2mm clearance between
them. A "normal" Single-Board Computer product from any other
well-funded Corporation would use large (Type A) HDMI, top-mounted,
with plenty of tolerances and no need for the PCB edge to be
accurately milled.
Again, to reiterate: we do not know what will need to be solved next.
Therefore, a production date simply cannot be provided, and that
really is the end of the matter. Or, the answer is: the production
date is "the production time plus the unknown time to solve unknown
and unknowable future issues".
Mike is sending me the 20 "good" PCBs so that I can test them here, to
see if they are okay. The staff will continue with the rest by
shaving the burrs on the PCB on every single one of the remaining 80
with an xacto-knife, before putting them through the production line.
It is looking like I will need to do the testing of all 100 of this
preliminary production run, here, at my home, in Taiwan.
It does sound complicated, I wish you the best on this. My hope is
that you will find the correct balance and succeed Luke.
When it ships successfully, let us all know with some big bold letters
email title please. :)
Actually... I just realized I didn't trim it enough, my bad. :(
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