Wow has this month been hectic in a whole new way and I love it!! Prepping for and going to MRRF is done, unpacking is not…Prepping for Open Sauce is in full swing.
Back to this board. I have spent at least an hour each day on it. Mostly learning the tools but eventually actually making some changes. Jono has been checking my work and helping to make this more robust in a few ways. I sent out for a new batch of test boards yesterday and approved them just now. so they should be here in about a week. I should have a couple of those to ship out for the super brave…I actually have a few of the prototypes to ship out if you really want to get your hands dirty. If you are interested, the board is 10mm larger than the release and the input voltage mosfet area LEDs are not working, but you can do some firmware testing if you are board.
I have some ideas for production and I just found out PCBWay will actually produce and ship them and give me a 10% royalty. That actually sounds pretty nice for international users. Local users you might want to get the board with a flashed esp32 and drivers directly from me. I also might offer a US made option for a while to see how people vote with their wallet. Excited new uncharted territory.
Yeah, PCBWay have a weird assortment of stuff on their website. I haven’t made use of any of that side of it, but I’ve looked at it a few times because you get credits for buying boards through PCBWay that can be spent on stuff like that.
They have ‘shared projects’ and their ‘gift’ store, but both seem to end up in the same backend.
There’s some fascinating looking stuff on there. In the past I’ve scrolled through and seen some remarkably questionable designs, though, especially in the home automation section once mains gets involved, so it’s definitely a case of buyer beware.
Seeed Studio seem to be a lot more curated in what they have, with a lot of it being in-house designs. We’ve used their Wio Terminal hardware for a bunch of things where it’s nice to have a screen, some buttons, some basic IO and WiFi connectivity out of the box.
@vicious1 The Wio Terminal could be a good candidate for making a cheap hardware tester, now that I think about it a bit more. It would probably need an expansion board design to go with it, though.
I just checked and apparently I have about 10,000 ‘Beans’ on the work account that can be used in any section of the store, worth around US$80. That’s from about $15k worth of total orders, I think.
I’ve got a couple of designs I could throw up there and see what happens. A bunch of stuff like ESP32 devkit breakout boards and an ergodox style gamepad.
I am currently printing my LR3 to replace my Primo. I made the decision to gift my working Primo to my son so I am looking at my options. I feel like FluidNC is the better option for CNC and want to get in on this new board. What do I need to do to get in the queue for one?
