Why not just use a service?  I know Digi Key will
preprogram for fairly cheap if you buy from them.  I
looked into this about 6 months ago - the minimums
were pretty small and prices reasonable.

I thought about the low-wage kid approach but didn't
like it because I was worried I'd get a couple of
percent error rate (chip not programmed, most likely).
 Reworking a few more percent wasn't something I
wanted to do.  Maybe with a good process it could be
100% but letting the supplier do it was a better
approach for me.

--- "John J. McDonough" <mcd@is-sixsigma.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "PicDude" <picdude2@narwani.org>
> Subject: Re: [BUY]: Contract assembly services
> 
> 
> > On Wednesday 27 April 2005 06:03 pm, Olin Lathrop
> scribbled:
> > >
> > > How do you expect to program the PICs?  At those
> volumes you need at
> least
> > > a somewhat automated process.
> >
> > Yes.
> 
> Doesn't need to be so automated. One minimum wage
> high school kid per shift
> on one programmer, that's less than a month's work. 
> Dreary, boring work,
> but some kids would find that preferable to flipping
> burgers.
> 
> --McD
> 
> 
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