----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Olin Lathrop" <olin_piclist@embedinc.com>
Subject: Re: [BUY]: Contract assembly services


> I didn't mean to imply that it needed to be fully automated.  However, a
> high school kid getting bored out of his skull is going to start making
> mistakes.

I wouldn't expect someone to actually sit programming PICs for 8 hours a
day, but on the other hand, it's pretty interesting work compared to many
auto industry jobs here in Michigan.  But I thought that sort of measure
would help to scale the size of the job.

It did get me thinking about how I would do it, though.  The DigiKey
approach is probably one I would cost out, but for some reason, I would
"assume" that Mchip would be too expensive ... don't know why I would assume
that, but I would.

Of course, I don't know Neil's application, but I would assume that the 2000
the second year would be spread across the year, and that there would be
some probability of revisions during that time, so ordering 2K programmed
parts seems risky.

I think I would be tempted to contract it out to minimum wage labor on a
piece basis, perhaps with a second team for verification.  This would
require buying a fistful of programmers, but they aren't very expensive.
This is something that quite a few people could do at home, make a few extra
bucks with little pain.

> I had originally
> asked because it looked possible that my ProProg production programmer may
> be useful in this situation

You're pretty transparent, Olin.  It took about a millisecond to figure that
out.

--McD


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