samson7point1 wrote:
Since panic over the COVOID-19 virus is causing pandemonium with all the things, any idea how the timeline for this has been impacted? I would be astonished if these were still on track to start shipping at the end of March at this stage.
I’m about a month behind at the moment. My board house was shutdown for a month as well. They said they’re back up and running but in reality it looks like they’re still not up to full production as I’m waiting on a PCB (different project) from them now and its late.
A bit of feature creep and design changes have also delayed. I’ve also been sick more times in this last 6 months than I think the rest of my life combined. Kid in daycare. :-S.
Its looking like I’ll have the first smaller production run (~25 units) around the first week of April. I’ll develop the firmware on those and make sure everything is solid, then I’ll put in the larger order. There’s a portion of these units that is built by hand so units will ship out based on how orders were received.
Below is an x-ray view of the bottom cover PCB board. This turned out to be probably more complicated than the actual memory and MCU main board. Big circles at the bottom are the embedded capacitive touch sensors. The actual outside will only have the blue graphics and no vias will be visible from the outside.
Oh, and the VB characters eyes on back light up through the PCB when there’s USB traffic. LOL.
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Posting here as well since not everyone is on Discord. I’ve been pushing hard the last few weeks. Boards are out for quote now for fab and assembly. I’ll be most likely switching the case colors to black. This will give it a black with white silkscreen look. Should look nice.
The main board is pretty dense for a VB cart. Definitely couldn’t have done this without a split PCB design integrated into the case. Exciting stuff.
