> Have you thought about contacting Olimex? They do PCB sub assembly,

I didn't know that.  I thought they only did PC boards.  However, I
thought it was mentioned here that they shut down an entire month of the
year for vacation!  I think that is now, but I'm very worried about a
place that wouldn't respond for a whole month if I had a real problem in
the future.

> and what about Sean in Sydney, I recall him mentioning some time ago
> that his factory in China had spare capacity.

I sent Sean the files on 15 July right before I left for Masters.  I
pinged him when I got back on 28 July and received a reply on 29 July.  He
had some suggestions and about how to redesign to use local components,
and wanted to change the product a bit because the original PBK concept
started with an offer from him.  I thought some of the redesign ideas were
reasonable, but also wanted to just get the product out already.  I sent a
detailed reply on 29 July where I made it clear he should be treating this
as a normal for profit job, not as a favor to the PIClist like his PBK
offer.  I was mostly concerned about time to market so I asked him how
much it would cost to build as is, and a few other question.  That's the
last I heard.


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