On 2009-05-24, Timothy Normand Miller wrote: > Second is the volumes we need to build in. We're ready to make 25. > We thought we could make just 25. We may still be able to make 25. > The first problem is in actually getting those quantities. Parts > suppliers don't want to sell in quantities less than 100, so we need > help finding ones who will. Buying them from Digikey is out of the > question, because there will be a 300% markup (making 25 cost more > than 100). Also PCB suppliers are reluctant to build in quantities > less than 1000, and assemblers are reluctant to build fewer than 100. > So we need help with these things.
About the PCBs. Searching Google for "pcb prototyping machine" gives results for various devices which can create PCBs mechanically. I don't know if the quality is good enough for commercial products, or whether they can drill something like the OGD1 at all. But if they can do the job, it might be interesting for the open hardware community to have access to one these for producing small batches. The cheaper models seems to cost around $ 10 000. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
