It's going well. I haven't done as much testing as I'd like since I sent out the boards I made to ChipGeek and Gateway for testing/coding purposes. Firmware work is coming along well, and will be done by the time we're ready to assemble them.
The current plan is to have the assembly house accept all the parts by May 6th for kitting in order to have assembly start May 9th, with surface mount, through hole and test occurring concurrently the following week. The production revision of the PCB has been sent to the board house, and they will be ready in time to be delivered on the 6th.
I'm currently bench testing a board to get a better handle on the numbers to give us some baselines that all the boards should hit and that we feel comfortable advertising the board at, as well as testing more extreme situations in order to push the limits. Once that's done we'll open the store here right away to orders.
The current plan is to have the assembly house accept all the parts by May 6th for kitting in order to have assembly start May 9th, with surface mount, through hole and test occurring concurrently the following week. The production revision of the PCB has been sent to the board house, and they will be ready in time to be delivered on the 6th.
I'm currently bench testing a board to get a better handle on the numbers to give us some baselines that all the boards should hit and that we feel comfortable advertising the board at, as well as testing more extreme situations in order to push the limits. Once that's done we'll open the store here right away to orders.
Many thanks for update. It looks like it's coming well together
Rough math on dates it looks like another 4-5 weeks ?
Thank you again and hurry up
As a point of reference, for the first batch of Chilis we got parts to the assembly house on Oct 7th, assembly started on Oct 9th and first units shipped Oct 14th, with the last ones going out the 18th. I imagine the Habanero will take a little longer to process though.
You are absolutely right with the fact that rather say later than sooner. People here go ballistic even if you are 1 day late. SCAM SCAM lol.
I'm resisting from buying Ants S1's since I have heard about your project. 1 chip with 4 cores is true advancement at least in my eyes and not 640 chips on 5 boards
Keep up the good work and please be competitive with the pricing I would not like to bang my head that I didn't buy them Ants at the end