Re: [Xylo-SDR] Questions - Enclosure - MB - Kicad

["Eric Ellison" <ecellison@comcast.net>]

Leon

Shades of Jean at FPGA4FUN. I personally have no objections! Go for it! Also
since not all of us here are into soldering high pitch devices, go for SMT
stuff on this board and let's get it contract manufactured. Or offer the
board only at a discount for those of us who have the equipment. I'd go for
the smt stuff manufactured. Go with 12-06 smt on discretes, if possible so
that we with microscopes and shaky hands can tackem' down! (smile)

Eric


-----Original Message-----
From: xylo-sdr-bounces@lists.ae5k.us [mailto:xylo-sdr-bounces@lists.ae5k.us]
On Behalf Of Leon Heller
Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 3:59 PM
To: Xylo-SDR Discussion
Subject: Re: [Xylo-SDR] Questions - Enclosure - MB - Kicad

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Ellison" <ecellison@comcast.net>
To: "'Xylo-SDR Discussion'" <xylo-sdr@lists.ae5k.us>
Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 8:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Xylo-SDR] Questions - Enclosure - MB - Kicad


> Leon
>
> I'll sit back and listen to this discussion. It IS important. Also the
> proposal on the floor is for a 100 x 100 mm board.
>
> IMHO - This IS the 'heart' and sole of our project, and deserves a LOT of
> thought. I'm for spending more $ on this component than any other. It 
> needs
> to be as versatile as we can afford. This is probably going to be a 1 off
> (actually let's consider 25 off for this run for 'our' Xylo-Phreaks.) I
> personally don't see $150 or more on this board as being objectionable. I
> have already spent $250 on FPGA for fun stuff.
>
> With Case, power, and your board, it actually could be an experimental
> system we could sell for profit. I'm not suggesting that, but there are a
> lot higher priced naked boards out there which are pretty but don't cut 
> the
> mustard for an end product. What we produce will be our end product but 
> not
> necessarily the rest of the world.

I was intending to sell the FPGA boards on their own, as it'll make a nice 
general purpose board. The cost would be around $125, or less, depending on 
quantity.

73, Leon 

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