On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 3:28 PM, sixvolts <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've been trying to talk to the people CircuitCo about building a run of > the beaglebone black boards for a commercial project, but I can't seem to > get anyone to respond to emails and the two people I have phone numbers for > are always busy. > > My understanding was that proper etiquette was to not poach boards from > the distributors if you build a device around the beaglebone and have them > produced for you. I even spoke to someone at a CircuitCo booth at a > conference last year (DesignWest - where the beaglebone black was > "launched") and they indicated this was common already for the original > beagleboards/bones. > > I can't get anyone local interested in building them because of some of > the minimum order quantities on some of the parts (like the emmc). > > Anyone at CircuitCo around? I have money and need around 100 boards made. > Good grief! your last two lines explain everything! It's obvious you haven't a clue how PCB manufacturing works and seem determined to make the system fit your world view. Your 100 board run does not even come close to their minimum order quantity requirements! Yes, they are avoiding you! You don't meet requirements! You seem to be unable to grasp the concept that your requirement is too small for their requirements, hence now you've become a pest and a nuisance! They can't help you and don't want to be bothered by you anymore! There are many, many other board shops out there! Do your homework, Google can help, Nuts and Volts magazine/website can help. The hobby oriented board shops consider this a very complex design, which it is and many will not take it. The ones that will take it are going to charge a lot. Many will only do 4 layer boards and won't touch BBB. Then you have to worry about testing. Many won't test for you and the ones that will are going to charge a lot to setup a test plan. Do you even know how to specify what you want tested? You can't just say that you want a "functional board." It doesn't work that way. This is the realities of PCB manufacturing. Are you really ready for the big time? -david -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
