[Arm-netbook] found a decent contract usa contract manufacturer, yaay

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

i've been introduced to a really good team, who are definitely on the
ball, we're going through parts-sourcing for them with their favourite
suppliers, already, i've only just met them 1/2 a day ago. this in
contrast to "um we'll get back to you" and 4 months later still
waiting.

so *finally* we should have results (quotes), that means being able to
move on the crowd-funding for the micro-desktop.

l.

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[Stephen Paul Weber]

Post by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
i've been introduced to a really good team, who are definitely on the
ball, we're going through parts-sourcing for them with their favourite
suppliers, already, i've only just met them 1/2 a day ago. this in
contrast to "um we'll get back to you" and 4 months later still
waiting.

They sound awesome. Are you able to share names?

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 11:53 PM, Stephen Paul Weber

Post by Stephen Paul Weber

Post by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
i've been introduced to a really good team, who are definitely on the
ball, we're going through parts-sourcing for them with their favourite
suppliers, already, i've only just met them 1/2 a day ago. this in
contrast to "um we'll get back to you" and 4 months later still
waiting.

They sound awesome. Are you able to share names?

macrofab.net

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[Troy Benjegerdes]

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On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 11:53 PM, Stephen Paul Weber

Post by Stephen Paul Weber

Post by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
i've been introduced to a really good team, who are definitely on the
ball, we're going through parts-sourcing for them with their favourite
suppliers, already, i've only just met them 1/2 a day ago. this in
contrast to "um we'll get back to you" and 4 months later still
waiting.

They sound awesome. Are you able to share names?

macrofab.net

Have they said anything about integration with and/or support for KiCad?

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[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

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On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 11:53 PM, Stephen Paul Weber

Post by Stephen Paul Weber

Post by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
i've been introduced to a really good team, who are definitely on the
ball, we're going through parts-sourcing for them with their favourite
suppliers, already, i've only just met them 1/2 a day ago. this in
contrast to "um we'll get back to you" and 4 months later still
waiting.

They sound awesome. Are you able to share names?

macrofab.net

Have they said anything about integration with and/or support for KiCad?

i'm not going to ask them, they're very busy, and KiCAD is something
i cannot work for these complex projects, with due to numerous bugs
and the lack of "built-in checking". i rely heavily on creating
groups (power lines for example), setting detailed design rules on
each group, so that i do not have to check every single one of
thousands of connections round hundreds of components.

once these complex boards are out of the way and i have time and the
financial luxury to invest in KiCAD i'll come back to it.

l.

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[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

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On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 11:53 PM, Stephen Paul Weber

Post by Stephen Paul Weber

Post by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
i've been introduced to a really good team, who are definitely on the
ball, we're going through parts-sourcing for them with their favourite
suppliers, already, i've only just met them 1/2 a day ago. this in
contrast to "um we'll get back to you" and 4 months later still
waiting.

They sound awesome. Are you able to share names?

macrofab.net

Have they said anything about integration with and/or support for KiCad?

just uploading some files now (nice system, not "please email me
everything", it's properly managed) and they have options "eagle" and
"kicad". no PADS or Altium though :)

l.

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[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

well this is actually really awesome. we now have the gerber and BOM
uploaded, normally the supported file formats would run automated
scripts and everything would be auto-generated, however this time
because using PADS we had to extract some info manually.

that having been done i can now edit the BOM online, see the PCB
layers online (and upload replacements), including zoom - it's really
impressive. and hasn't taken very long to get set up.

we also found a VB script to generate the pick/place robot
instructions, making their job easier as well.

l.

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