I applaud your effort! Some things to note however, the HackRF design is a bit 'old' in the terms of chips it uses. Some have already have end-of-life notices (which often has the general meaning that production has stopped of new parts). AFAICT all of the parts are still available but they are getting scarcer. That said, if you're just building a 2 or 3 boards you can often request a manufacturer to sample you up to 10 pieces for this sort of prototype/exploratory work. They will ask questions like "when do you expect to go into production" and "what sort of run rate will you be requiring (units per month/year))" I typically answer those questions with "this is exploratory work to test component compatibility for our design target, in the event that we decide to go to production with this design it would be several thousands of units a year." All of those statements are true but the probability of that particular future might be quite low. I got there after talking with a field representative for Analog devices who was anxious to give me parts to play with but he had to "check the box" with respect to sizing the opportunity. He suggested much of the wording as something he could pass along and check the box, but would not be construed as an obligation by his management to call this a design "win". So when they came back later and said "What did that FizzBuzz Electronics product turn into?" He could say "They've gone a different way" and not catch any flack for giving me samples (which the FAEs know getting out into builders hands creates word of mouth buzz) from a corporate bean counter that might want to compare sample numbers to unit sales. Generally its in the noise so hard to draw any specific conclusions.
Building SDRs is a fairly nichey but lucrative target for these guys so they want to keep themselves in front of the engineers who are actually building hardware. --Chuck On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 7:39 AM, Munson, Jonathan (Jon) (MAJ) < jvmun...@nps.edu> wrote: > Ladies and Gentlemen, > I am planning to build one or two HackRF Ones based on the BOM and stuff > already provided at github. > > My initial survey of DigiKey, Mouser and Newark/Farnell yielded some > requirements not yet met. One chip basically requires a min 2500 order, and > several I need to request quotes (which I've done, simply waiting on that). > > I would appreciate any guidance and pointers from anyone who has recently > acquired the parts and assembled a HackRF. Especially helpful also would be > an updated BOM or even equivalent parts lists that are known to work. > > Respectfully, > > Jon > > > _______________________________________________ > HackRF-dev mailing list > HackRF-dev@greatscottgadgets.com > https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/hackrf-dev > >
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