Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: MOTM

I'm not ever going back to full-blown kits. That is not a good use of my
time.

[JH, close your ears a sec.....]

There is only ∗so much∗ one can conjure up with resistors, caps and op amps.

And with other people offering blank boards for as low as what, $12? I have
no interest in that at all.

I am now concerned about my future plans for things like the 520/521 and the
'102 (digital noise with CV's delay cascaded S&H). There is no way to make a
'102 with the same parts as a '420 VCF.

But, I think having such a module would be really cool and useful, as
(again....) there is nothing like that out there, now or since 1968.

These designs take ∗lot of time and money∗. And the reality is: my time is
∗much∗ more valuable that your time. Because anyone can order something and
set it aside in a closet for 2 years until use. But ∗I can't∗. I ∗have∗ to
buy the parts, the CAD tools (I spent $5300 last year on CAD/computer
upgrades) the literal 100,000 parts (and hold the inventory, and pay
quarterly taxes ON the inventory).

I can't compete with people sitting at the dining room table and laying out
pc boards 'for fun' and selling them for $15.

So, all ask it again: what sort of module, that I can offer as blank pc
boards (no SMT) is of interest? Is there a filter, a function, what is
"missing" in the MOTM equation that you ∗can't get elsewhere∗?

Most of my current future module plans ∗assume∗ a SMT technology, simply
because that is the form factor the parts are available in.

Paul S.