Manufacturing Gamebuino in EU

[Hark0]

Hi @rodot...

Only for curiosity...

The Gamebuinos are manufactured on EU or China?


TIA, Hark0

[ripper121]

Hand soldered and flashed by Rodot in France
Where the PCB is made i don´t know.

[Hark0]

Thanks!

[rodot]

I never said the PCB was hand soldered... that's not possible with 800 units to make!
The PCB are manufactured and partially assembled in China by Pick&Place robots, and I finish to assemble them (screen, battery, buttons, case, bootloader, SD card) here in France. If the PCB were manufactured in France it would cost at least 100€ per Gamebuino

[adekto]

sadly thats the case in eu right now, everything is so dam expensive

[rodot]

...but don't worry, Chinese people at the factory will breathe less toxic fumes and get more money from Gamebuino that I will!

[yodasvideoarcade]

Haha, that's a good point!

[Hark0]

I never said the PCB was hand soldered... that's not possible with 800 units to make!
The PCB are manufactured and partially assembled in China by Pick&Place robots, and I finish to assemble them (screen, battery, buttons, case, bootloader, SD card) here in France. If the PCB were manufactured in France it would cost at least 100€ per Gamebuino

Thanks for the explanation... I'm one of http://zxuno.speccy.org (ZX Spectrum on FPGA) team member and we are interested on some info about good prices for manufacturing PCB's...

[inversesandwich]

Thanks for the explanation... I'm one of http://zxuno.speccy.org (ZX Spectrum on FPGA) team member and we are interested on some info about good prices for manufacturing PCB's...

SeeedStudio and iTeadstudio are pretty cheap.