Re:Upverter (YC W11): the perfect tool for open-source hardware
by zakhomuth on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @03:41PM
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Hey bradfa, Zak from upverter here. We hear you! Layout will be one of the next things we launch (we are working on it right now, hopefully just a few months away).
The hope is to also add a "print button" to connect users designs with rapid manufacturing suppliers.
Re:Upverter (YC W11): the perfect tool for open-source hardware
by 0x12 on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @03:47PM
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That's a hell of a business model! Congratulations.
Re:Upverter (YC W11): the perfect tool for open-source hardware
by trafficlight on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @04:00PM
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That will be very cool.
Best of luck to you guys.
Open source hardware is no good if I can't manufacture it on a circuit board. Yes, breadboarding is handy for small stuff, but 256 pin BGAs don't fit on breadboards. And repeatability isn't so grand.
With a nice, reasonable to use layout tool (even with just simple routing assistant type features [push and shove]) and tutorials on how to use it, what DRCs are and how they're used, and maybe videos showing people who know how to do this stuff teaching, upverter could be really cool. Heck, for a full-ish featured EDA package in the cloud targeted at open hardware, I'd even pay to use it (provided we're not talking Cadence or Mentor money, more like GitHub paid account money).