Hestia Hacker on Nostr: Sometimes when you take a chance, it works out. Other times, it doesn't. I recently ...
Sometimes when you take a chance, it works out. Other times, it doesn't.
I recently designed a temperature/humidity board, got PCBs made and tried to assemble them. None of them worked. Like, at all!
So I redesigned it, making it simpler and tried again. Another 100% fail.
I had someone review my design. He said it looked good. Maybe it was manufactueing errors? I'm pretty good at soldering, but yeah maybe...
So I took a big chance and dropped $250 on machine-assembled terperature sensors boards. Of my design really was good, they should work. Otherwise I just spend a bunch of money to ship e-waste half way around the world.
They arrived today and they work! Whew! I was really nervous about that one. This batch was about the same price as the cheapest pre-assembled board that I could find. If I can scale up from 50 boards to 250, I could have a very nice price. At least 10% cheaper than market prices. Of course I'd also have to pay $1200 up front and probably never sell them all to break even. So I'll probably stick to the "small" batches for now.
#electronics #manufacturing #learning by #failure
I recently designed a temperature/humidity board, got PCBs made and tried to assemble them. None of them worked. Like, at all!
So I redesigned it, making it simpler and tried again. Another 100% fail.
I had someone review my design. He said it looked good. Maybe it was manufactueing errors? I'm pretty good at soldering, but yeah maybe...
So I took a big chance and dropped $250 on machine-assembled terperature sensors boards. Of my design really was good, they should work. Otherwise I just spend a bunch of money to ship e-waste half way around the world.
They arrived today and they work! Whew! I was really nervous about that one. This batch was about the same price as the cheapest pre-assembled board that I could find. If I can scale up from 50 boards to 250, I could have a very nice price. At least 10% cheaper than market prices. Of course I'd also have to pay $1200 up front and probably never sell them all to break even. So I'll probably stick to the "small" batches for now.
#electronics #manufacturing #learning by #failure