I kind of want to print that quote and put it on my corkboard.
On a sidenote Klondike is close now so I might just get tanked hardcore they are to me the real AM competitor
K16 Board Revision is completed.
v0.3.0 - Final testing
FINAL BETA K16 v0.3.0 Board Design Released.If it pushes to production in the next week I might just make that bold and make it an ANN for everyone to look at haha it will take some time from there for it to seriously impact but it would be real not speculation.
Going to use this as the thread as we speculate here they are still finishing development it is their work place do not want to url link to it
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GIANT NOTE THIS IS NOT A READY VERSIONIf you want a plug n play board you need to go with one of the vendors making a real product.
Your average tinkerer is not going to want to get into this (it took BKK 6 hours to hand place the parts, 3 minutes to cook, and many hours of testing). He will be writing up a PDF guide later
All this Is BKKI've pushed my latest design files up to GitHub and updated the parts list.
Have Fun. New 3D render and gerber outputs also there. Use gerbv and open the kicad/ka6/ka6.gvp file.
Tomorrow I hope to have a web store open. Still a bunch of work to do there, setup Paypal and Bitcoin Pmts, and I need to take a few photos. Initially I expect to have pre-order K16 and K1 Board Only sales. Pre-order as in I'll order the boards and when they come in I'll ship them out - not months of angst waiting.
I'll also have Solder Paste Stencils for K16 and K1, and a small plain Heat Sink for the K1 as well. The boards include a license fee component, and pricing for QTY 1-9, 10-25, 26-50, 51-99, 100+. I plan to add some pre-programmed PIC parts later but that also depends on supply, and there's not much point in that until I have a boot loader written.
Note - my firmware files now default for use with inverters on result data and clk. If you still use non-inverted you will need to edit two lines before building in addition to setting chip count and bank values. I'll get some of this cleaned up with proper defines before long.
Next up: QFN variant and then K1 revision.