Squeezemenicely wrote: > @Johnswenson > > Now you really caught my attention, this sounds nearly to good to be > true. > > Very exciting indeed! > > Once it gets to Gen2 is it supposed to be a solder yourself product? > Putting boards in a box and all is no problem, but I am sure there are > many who would be frightened away if they had to start soldering. > > Really happy you guys are working on this - so maybe that Logitech > killed the line was a good thing, if we get better products made by > boardmembers - something that would have never happened otherwise.
No version will need soldering. All the connectors will be on the boards. Gen 0.5 and Gen1 will be a board I'm designing, the user will be required to come up with a wandboard module (currently the only way to do that is buy the whole wandboard package), unscrew 4 screws and pop out the module and install it on our carrier board. If using the external wifi module you will need to buy it separately as well and pop it into the carrier board. This whole assembly can be mounted in a box if desired. So at least through Gen1 it will be getting 2 or 3 boards from different sources and plugging them together. I am presuming that as Gen1 progresses that at least one case design will become available. I am envisioning Gen 2 to be a fully assembled ready to go product in the box etc. This is an aspect we are going to have to look into, that will take some assembly. The board houses I work with will provide fully assembled boards, but they do not do final assembly. If we are going to provide a packaged product we need to come up with some final assembler. So Gen1 is "some assembly required", Gen2 is plug and play. As far as software goes, Gen1 is going to be: "grab an image file off the net, copy it onto an SD card and put that in the module", it's probably going to be doing a lot of that during the development phase. Gen2 should be able to come out of the box with the SD card already programed. One of the things we will have to work out in the development phase is how updates will be done, whether you program a card on some other computer and plug it in, or whether you plug in a USB flash stick and software in the box copies it to the local card, or something else. John S. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97881 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
