I've posted the board to eBay. https://www.ebay.com/itm/142599524344
It will be packed well and shipped USPS priority mail. Only US shipping at this time. I'm investigating options for contract assembled REX boards right now. I might hand-build a small run later to fund such a run, or I might consider some kind of crowd-funding or pre-order. Not sure. -Josh On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 9:49 AM, Stephen Adolph <[email protected]> wrote: > congrats, see it can be done. there is a learning curve and while there are > lots of ways to get it assembled, each approach will have it's pitfalls. > I've gotten comfortable with "my way" but it was definitely trial and error. > Steve > > On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 9:38 AM, Josh Malone <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> And it seems to work! I guess my moral here is "clean the board really >> well before and after", and "don't use too much flux" >> >> So I take back everything I said about parts, suppliers, boards, etc. >> Turns out, it's all issues with the assembler :) >> >> Happy Thanksgiving to all! >> >> -Josh >> >> On Nov 22, 2017 9:33 PM, "Josh Malone" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> So, I finally got around to re-working my last failed REX. I removed >>> the flash chip and cleaned that side of the board really well. There >>> was a LOT of flux under that flash chip. I think my choice of flux is >>> very wrong for this project -- I plan to get a liquid flux pen for >>> future work. Anyway, with the flash chip removed, the CPLD programmed >>> with no problems. I re-populated the flash chip again but haven't had >>> time to try REX programming. This is the third time this flash chip >>> has been soldered so I hope it lives to tell the tale! If it does >>> work, I'll probably sell it on fleaBay since I only have a single >>> Tandy and don't plan on getting another Model T anytime soon. >>> >>> Thanks for all the support! >>> >>> -Josh > >
