As for Will and I - we're not advocating you return to kits, Paul.
But we've wanted the 450 (FFB) for a couple years and we like building
the modules. That one looks pretty doable so for that module, anyway,
we'd like to build it ourselves.
There are things about some modules that we wouldn't want to tackle -
the 650 for instance, the 730, the 520/21. We're happy to buy them
ready made from you.
--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Schreiber" <synth1@...> wrote:
>
> 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.
>