[sdiy] Trades?

[Spiros Makris]

Colin,
Kits are aimed at people wanting to get into the soldering part of making
electronics, or those who are willing to save a few bucks in exchange for
their personal time.
If you do electronics for a living, or have been a DIY designer for some
time the appeal of assembling a board just for fun has faded, but there's a
lot of people out there who enjoy it and essentially treat it like model
aeroplanes.
If you are a small design house, assembly can become hard- even if it seems
inefficient, it might actually be easier to sort components in bags rather
than buy a pick and place machine or hire assemblers and so on.

On Tue, 27 Oct 2020, 17:59 ColinMuirDorward, <colindorward at gmail.com> wrote:

> IMHO kits are a great way to develop soldering and debugging skills, but
> an inefficient way to fabricate modules.
> A lot of extra work is generated by the need to organise and ship the BOM
> to each customer, who then repeats the same work of looking at each
> component and placing it somewhere, not to mention the increased
> opportunity to make mistakes. Isn't "already-stuffed" the best way to
> deliver the components to the end user?
>
> That said, if someone offered me a completed module in exchange for one of
> my completed modules, I wouldn't care how they made it, as long as it works.
>
> Colin
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 4:56 AM Kevin Dunnicliffe <kevin at kdassoc.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday, 27 October 2020 04:34:48 GMT, ColinMuirDorward wrote:
>> > Does anybody want to trade eurorack or other self-built stuff?
>> > I'm not worried about dollar value, it just seems crazy to not
>> > trade these things since it's only 20% harder to build 2x as
>> > many modules.
>> > I'm open to ideas, offers, or explanations as to why this is a bad idea!
>> > I'm in Canada, but IMO, shipping worldwide isn't out of the question.
>> > Cheers,
>> > Colin
>> >
>>
>> I'm just getting into self-build eurorack, and at the moment I am
>> building
>> purchased "full kit" projects, so I haven't yet got familiar with BOMs
>> and
>> PCB fabrication.
>> So I would be interested in principle in buying kits, if others are
>> willing
>> to put them together, but I don't feel able to reciprocate until I've got
>> more experience.
>> Regards
>> Kevin
>>
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