<div dir="auto"><div>Colin,</div><div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto">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. </div><div dir="auto">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.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 27 Oct 2020, 17:59 ColinMuirDorward, <<a href="mailto:colindorward@gmail.com">colindorward@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>IMHO kits are a great way to develop soldering and debugging skills, but an inefficient way to fabricate modules. <br></div><div>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? <br></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Colin<br></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 4:56 AM Kevin Dunnicliffe <<a href="mailto:kevin@kdassoc.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">kevin@kdassoc.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Tuesday, 27 October 2020 04:34:48 GMT, ColinMuirDorward wrote:<br>
> Does anybody want to trade eurorack or other self-built stuff?<br>
> I'm not worried about dollar value, it just seems crazy to not <br>
> trade these things since it's only 20% harder to build 2x as <br>
> many modules.<br>
> I'm open to ideas, offers, or explanations as to why this is a bad idea!<br>
> I'm in Canada, but IMO, shipping worldwide isn't out of the question.<br>
> Cheers,<br>
> Colin<br>
><br>
<br>
I'm just getting into self-build eurorack, and at the moment I am building <br>
purchased "full kit" projects, so I haven't yet got familiar with BOMs and <br>
PCB fabrication.<br>
So I would be interested in principle in buying kits, if others are willing <br>
to put them together, but I don't feel able to reciprocate until I've got <br>
more experience. <br>
Regards<br>
Kevin<br>
<br>
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