I think the fact we are talking about it is good. Do we think it would be viable to get the rex boards made in china? I'm by no means an expert on this, but a friend of mine had a run of his custom PCB printed in China. I don't think it was THAT expensive. But it's not something I know much about sadly.
I mean I own a REX, it's a great bit of kit and I'd hate to think anyone new to these machines will never be able to take advantage of one. On 19 Sep 2017 6:29 p.m., "Brian White" <[email protected]> wrote: > Group order from whom? > > Steven has published the files and info needed to make them yourself. I > have proven that nothing was missing by doing it and making a few, and > writing up the steps, parts, and tools, and filling in some details into a > more explicit recipe that more people should be able to follow, and put > that on a wiki so that anyone else can improve the recipe even further. > > If you want to buy a rex, instead of build one for yourself, first you > have to find someone who wants to build them for you. They need to be able > to follow this: > > http://tandy.wiki/REX > > I was thinking of possibly trying to do a little workshop at Tandy > Assembly to guide people through building a rex or figtronix for > themselves, but I only asked on the facebook group a couple weeks ago and > not enough people responded, and now time is short. So I did order the > parts to make 3 rex's and maybe I'll build those or see if anyone else > wants to build them at TA. I'm going away on vacation tomorrow and will be > back just a couple days before TA so there's really no time to prepare > much. I should have committed to the idea earlier and mentioned it here > earlier. > > Building a rex was probably never sane in those conditions anyway. I know > that it's physically possible to do in a few hours, but that's when you're > already comfortable with all the operations, from soldering to dealing with > pain in the ass xilinx flashing softwae etc. But figtrinix is dead simple > so I thought maybe we could do those too or instead. Also John H had a good > idea that it would be valuable just to help people install replacement > motherboard batteries. So I ordered a few of those too, but I don't know if > they'll come in in time. > > But since I didn't start talking about any of this until just now, who > knows how many M100's will even be at TA. I should have had this idea and > talked about it months ago. > > -- > bkw > > On Sep 19, 2017 12:31 PM, "James Zeun" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> This has been touched on before, but I'm not sure what the conclusion was. >> >> There was some talk of making a group order of the rex modules. Was >> anything more progress made on this? >> >> How were the last lot made? Could they be made by hand? I'm not to bad >> with a soldering iron, so if we can get the PCBs made, maybe we could >> assemble some? >> >> Either way it's clear people want them and on the plus side it will keep >> some M100's in use. My REX really opened up my computer. >> >>
