Re: [beagleboard] Custom Beaglbone Black from Circuitco

2014-06-02 Thread sixvolts
First, The people at CircuitCo were very helpful. I just kept catching them when they were busy or not available. This is the realities of PCB manufacturing. Are you really ready for the big time? This isn't helpful, this is trolling. Go annoy someone on reddit. -- For more options, visit

Re: [beagleboard] Custom Beaglbone Black from Circuitco

2014-06-02 Thread William Hermans
sixvolts, you got your answer a week ago. Now you're trolling. On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 3:12 PM, sixvolts drewko...@gmail.com wrote: First, The people at CircuitCo were very helpful. I just kept catching them when they were busy or not available. This is the realities of PCB manufacturing.

Re: [beagleboard] Custom Beaglbone Black from Circuitco

2014-05-29 Thread Gerald Coley
I gave you the design for free. All the schematics, CAD files, and BOM. You are free to build it yourself at any place you want. There is no NRE charge. No license. Sorry that I can't be your personal engineering and manufacturing operation. Gerald On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 7:50 AM, Eric Fort

Re: [beagleboard] Custom Beaglbone Black from Circuitco

2014-05-29 Thread David Lambert
Well said Gerald! The BBB is so much more than just a reference design. It has been instantiated at a very low cost. I get sick when I hear of so much crap being thrown at the team, just because its huge success has caused some supply issues. Rant over. Dave. On 05/29/2014 08:00 AM, Gerald

Re: [beagleboard] Custom Beaglbone Black from Circuitco

2014-05-29 Thread Maxim Podbereznyy
Gerald, exactly! I have so many RFQ for 100 or even 1000pcs and people just can't understand that so small volume is not even a volume for an assembly line and consequently unit prices are higher than BBB price. These people just purchase BBB for commercial projects although they should not.

Re: [beagleboard] Custom Beaglbone Black from Circuitco

2014-05-29 Thread David Funk
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 3:28 PM, sixvolts drewko...@gmail.com wrote: I've been trying to talk to the people CircuitCo about building a run of the beaglebone black boards for a commercial project, but I can't seem to get anyone to respond to emails and the two people I have phone numbers for

[beagleboard] Custom Beaglbone Black from Circuitco

2014-05-28 Thread sixvolts
I've been trying to talk to the people CircuitCo about building a run of the beaglebone black boards for a commercial project, but I can't seem to get anyone to respond to emails and the two people I have phone numbers for are always busy. My understanding was that proper etiquette was to not

Re: [beagleboard] Custom Beaglbone Black from Circuitco

2014-05-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 28 May 2014, sixvolts wrote: I've been trying to talk to the people CircuitCo about building a run of the beaglebone black boards for a commercial project, but I can't seem to get anyone to respond to emails and the two people I have phone numbers for are always busy. My understanding

Re: [beagleboard] Custom Beaglbone Black from Circuitco

2014-05-28 Thread sixvolts
There are plenty of things that get built and sold in those kinds of numbers, like specialized instruments. On Wednesday, May 28, 2014 3:33:49 PM UTC-5, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Wed, 28 May 2014, sixvolts wrote: I've been trying to talk to the people CircuitCo about building a run

Re: [beagleboard] Custom Beaglbone Black from Circuitco

2014-05-28 Thread Gerald Coley
100 boards is not a lot of boards. Especially when you have distributors screaming for 50,000 boards to fill their large POs.. Gerald On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 3:38 PM, sixvolts drewko...@gmail.com wrote: There are plenty of things that get built and sold in those kinds of numbers, like

Re: [beagleboard] Custom Beaglbone Black from Circuitco

2014-05-28 Thread William Hermans
Gerald, I am just curious. Hypothetically speaking, what would it take to retool to make a custom board ? I am not looking for an IN or anything I am just curious. I'm thinking it would be a huge hassle to say the least. I've never worked in a PCB fab before, but worked for a CNC shop many moons

Re: [beagleboard] Custom Beaglbone Black from Circuitco

2014-05-28 Thread David Farning
Some shops are really good at churning out small (100 to 10,000 units) runs of a product. They have perfected the art of retooling the line. In the current situation, it appears that our beaglebone friends are in the process of convincing the money people to make the investment to increase

Re: [beagleboard] Custom Beaglbone Black from Circuitco

2014-05-28 Thread William Hermans
Yeah the risks may be higher but other things such as certification requirements are bypassed. So I am sure its a Win / lose situation. Win on some avenues, lose on others. On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 6:19 PM, David Farning dfarn...@gmail.com wrote: Some shops are really good at churning out small

Re: [beagleboard] Custom Beaglbone Black from Circuitco

2014-05-28 Thread William Hermans
Well sorry, i mean for this sort oft hing since it not a finished household product. On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 6:49 PM, William Hermans yyrk...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah the risks may be higher but other things such as certification requirements are bypassed. So I am sure its a Win / lose

Re: [beagleboard] Custom Beaglbone Black from Circuitco

2014-05-28 Thread Eric Fort
While CircuitCo incurs some risk in expanding production capacity on a board that anyone can step in and manufacture a clone of, and Embedest *is* making a clone of as a second source I will still hold out when purchasing beagleboard products for those sourced from CircuitCo as their quality has