11 Dec
2017
11 Dec
'17
10:50 a.m.
On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 08:59:46AM -0500, Paul Koning wrote:
I'm quite confident with a soldering iron when it comes to through hole
components. I haven't looked at the BOM for this project yet but I guess
there are surface mount components.
Perhaps an opportunity to learn.
/P
I am and possibly the Update computer club and some of it's members.
However, I have very little experience with making hardware. How would
we aproach this?
There are plenty of companies in the "prototype production" business; they will
make either blank printed circuit boards, or assembled boards, in small quantities. For
our purposes a group build probably counts as "small quantity". One I can think
of (and have used for blank PCBs) is PCB Pool.
Depending on the parts involved and the skill level of the consumers, it may be
reasonable to get blank boards and a parts bag and have the user assemble it -- or it may
be better to let professionals do the assembly.