Pete, As you know, I am a big fan of MacroFab. I have used them about a dozen times from quantities of ~5 to 100. They have an excellent automated ordering process and they give a number of options to play fulfillment time against volume. They can even do product assembly and test.
Chip ____________________________________ Chip McClelland [email protected] 919-624-5562 On August 21, 2020 at 12:14:01 PM, [email protected] ( [email protected]) wrote: Send TriEmbed mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of TriEmbed digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Circuithub, Macrofab & other quick turn assemblers (Pete Soper) 2. off topic: DNS smarts in web browsers (Pete Soper) 3. Re: Circuithub, Macrofab & other quick turn assemblers (Kevin Schilf) 4. Re: Circuithub, Macrofab & other quick turn assemblers (Pete Soper) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 08:48:24 -0400 From: Pete Soper <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: [TriEmbed] Circuithub, Macrofab & other quick turn assemblers Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" I'm shopping for a supplier to assemble smalll quantities of PCBs (eg Q3-10 of 21 kinds of board in one case). The two in the subject line are on my list but I wonder if anybody can add to it? I need something akin to OSH Park/OSH Stencils: zero human comms if I haven't screwed something up or gotten a surprise and ideally a week to three at most from upload to assembled boards in hand. If/when the project progresses there will be special requirements and that's when I would approach Better Boards or the like, so shops like that are not what I'm looking for now.Thanks,Pete -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: < http://mail.triembed.org/pipermail/triembed_triembed.org/attachments/20200821/ce8ba4e1/attachment.html> ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 09:10:53 -0400 From: Pete Soper <[email protected]> To: Triangle Embedded Interest Group <[email protected]> Subject: [TriEmbed] off topic: DNS smarts in web browsers Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed" For those interested in DNS smarts in web browsers this may be of interest: https://blog.apnic.net/2020/08/21/chromiums-impact-on-root-dns-traffic/ One pleasant surprise I got was learning that Microsoft Edge is built on OSS Chromium. Together with Visual Basic Code having an MIT license I might some day change my attitude toward this corporation. Their engineers are of course fantastic (interacted with them a bit when MS and Sun couldn't play nice with Java), but maybe the corporation is changing it's stripes? Anyway,? onward. -Pete -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: < http://mail.triembed.org/pipermail/triembed_triembed.org/attachments/20200821/7ea7f3ec/attachment-0001.html> ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 15:22:16 +0000 (UTC) From: Kevin Schilf <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, Pete Soper <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [TriEmbed] Circuithub, Macrofab & other quick turn assemblers Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hi Pete, Please share any vendors that are cost effective at 3-10 units.? I am also interested in any feedback the group has on toaster oven conversions or inexpensive turnkey reflow ovens (< $500).? It would be handy to have an immediate prototype capability in-house. I can recommend C-Tron (Franklin) and GRT (Raleigh) for SMT assembly but the quantities involved were 100's at a time?? In both cases, the service was cost effective and high quality.? I don't know if this would be cost effective at such small volumes.? Volume is King.? :-) Thanks,Kevin On Friday, August 21, 2020, 8:48:32 AM EDT, Pete Soper via TriEmbed < [email protected]> wrote: I'm shopping for a supplier to assemble smalll quantities of PCBs (eg Q3-10 of 21 kinds of board in one case). The two in the subject line are on my list but I wonder if anybody can add to it? I need something akin to OSH Park/OSH Stencils: zero human comms if I haven't screwed something up or gotten a surprise and ideally a week to three at most from upload to assembled boards in hand. If/when the project progresses there will be special requirements and that's when I would approach Better Boards or the like, so shops like that are not what I'm looking for now. Thanks,Pete_______________________________________________ Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list To post message: [email protected] List info: http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org TriEmbed web site: http://TriEmbed.org To unsubscribe, click link and send a blank message: mailto: [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: < http://mail.triembed.org/pipermail/triembed_triembed.org/attachments/20200821/346e3394/attachment-0001.html> ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 12:13:50 -0400 From: Pete Soper <[email protected]> To: Kevin Schilf <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [TriEmbed] Circuithub, Macrofab & other quick turn assemblers Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed" Thanks very much, Kevin. I'll share something about my reflow setup that I built for roughly $300 (but it involved a lucky find of a good hood from some RTP lab, a wood stove flu and a really good radial fan I just happened to have). I'm still using the original Controleo <https://www.whizoo.com/> board (and my oven looks almost exactly like the one on their web site: love that race car IR reflective stuff!). After poo-pooing the drawbacks of the original version my project to make a much better controller has been sitting unfinished for a very, very long time. That tells you how satisfied I am, although if you need to change profiles in a hurry we must hope their firmware is much smarter these days. But I'm confident their current product is really good. The industry experience they brought into their biz was solid: they were not only enthusiasts (the archaic term that comes to mind is "righteous dudes"). More on my setup when I have some time. On a related note, I just posted something to do with absorbed moisture in ICs <http://triembed.org/blog/keeping-your-powderhhhhhh-ics-dry/>on the TriEmbed web site. /*TriEmbed folks that have been "vetted" are welcome to get logins on the site and add their own content. It's a vanilla Wordpress environment and there is a "role" set up to provide different levels of privilege, etc.? One non-negotiable requirement is a password that can outlast an epoch of breakin attempts. Wordpress sites are subjected to nearly continuous attacks. The site is what we make it to be. I am uncomfortable having disproportionately created content for seven years and would very much like to become a bit player in the stats in the future, and not just because my day job and other circumstances are "blotting out the sun". *//*("Vetting" is just to establish we know who you are as part of the TriEmbed community, typically via meeting attendance, but sometimes email correspondence, phone calls, etc) */ Just for instance, somebody could add a posting about the monthly virtual meetings *iff* the Jitsi server is up to it. If it can't handle more than the current number of attendees then it would be a bad idea IMO. But there are various walled gardens wafting perfumed translations of "free" from all directions... -Pete On 8/21/20 11:22 AM, Kevin Schilf wrote: > Hi Pete, > > Please share any vendors that are cost effective at 3-10 units.? I am > also interested in any feedback the group has on toaster oven > conversions or inexpensive turnkey reflow ovens (< $500).? It would be > handy to have an immediate prototype capability in-house. > > I can recommend C-Tron (Franklin) and GRT (Raleigh) for SMT assembly > but the quantities involved were 100's at a time?? In both cases, the > service was cost effective and high quality.? I don't know if this > would be cost effective at such small volumes.? Volume is King.? :-) > > Thanks, > Kevin > > On Friday, August 21, 2020, 8:48:32 AM EDT, Pete Soper via TriEmbed > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm shopping for a supplier to assemble smalll quantities of PCBs (eg > Q3-10 of 21 kinds of board in one case). 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