Archives September 2016

Hi-def first batch ship info

Kev got some news about the last hi-def nes batch order:

I got final word on when boards will ship.  looks like mid october :-/ chinese holidays and some other issues.  The next run will be made at another fab; this place is starting to suck.   I want them sooner but not much I can do, I am tied to the vagaries of them for this run.

Last time I talked to Kev about this we were actually expecting them to ship last week, but now looks like not for 2-3 more weeks. It doesn’t make much sense and the fab doesn’t seem to really care about or project so switching fabs may be in everyone’s best interest…

News from the PCB makers!

Kevtris emailed me and said the pcb house updated him on the order. They have the blank pcb’s done and should have assembly done by 9-19. I will post if there are more updates from them. Note that you can clearly see where the hdmi connector has been moved out so top loader and av fami installs will be more flush!

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First 500 kits are sold!!!

I thought it would take two weeks, but we sold 40ish kits last week, so we are so close to 500 i’m gonna say they are sold now. HOWEVER, we have not received or tested anything yet so we may not even get 500 working kits from china! Last time we had like 30 bad boards out of 250! We’re hoping they do better at testing on their end this time though as it seemed like they dropped the ball on their end with testing on the last batch.

Pre-orders for the next batch order continue where the first ended, no such thing as ‘sold out’ with this setup.