At 02:56 PM 11/2/2007, wayne burdick wrote:
Since the K3's PCB modules are pre-assembled, we have to 100% test
them, whether they're destined for a kit or for a fully-assembled
unit. I thought I'd give you some flavor of what goes into this.
However, this turns out to be very time-consuming, so reducing test
time through automation is one of our major ongoing efforts. I'm now
pitching in to help our manufacturing-engineering team (Brian, W6FVI
and Rene, WR6MTR) by adding test firmware to the K3 itself. K3
owners will benefit from this effort in another way, since some
tests are added to the K3's POST routine (power-up self-test), and
all of the added remote control commands can be used to advantage in
third-party software applications.
That's the news from the lab. Back to work....
Interesting....just curious....is one of the last steps before
packing and shipping to update the firmware? Seems like you all make
a lot of changes, which will benefit all of us. Seems that one of
the first steps after turning puppy on would be to check for an update?
73,
Thom k3hrn
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