Re:Raspberry Pi has PCBs for 100 beta $25 PCs
by retroafroman on Thursday December 01, 2011 @03:53PM
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Right, but on the blog post they say they'll offer a few to the community most likely. 100 seems a little excessive for a board test batch, but maybe it was the smallest order number they could get.
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Re:Raspberry Pi has PCBs for 100 beta $25 PCs
by polshaw on Thursday December 01, 2011 @04:00PM
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100 seems reasonable for QA when you are planning on making >10K right after.
They are auctioning these 100 boards (populated).
Re:Raspberry Pi has PCBs for 100 beta $25 PCs
by tb on Thursday December 01, 2011 @06:57PM
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Exactly. You might make 10 for your early prototypes but it's not unusual to make 100 or more for the final test run.
Re:Raspberry Pi has PCBs for 100 beta $25 PCs
by nl on Thursday December 01, 2011 @10:43PM
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No, they are going to populate them all, test them, then sell them.
We’ve made 100 of these betas, which will now be populated with components... Raspberry Pis from this very first, small batch, will be going on sale when they’ve been tested
Re:Raspberry Pi has PCBs for 100 beta $25 PCs
by sliverstorm on Thursday December 01, 2011 @04:36PM
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100 boards doesn't cost all that much more than 10, IIRC.
Re:Raspberry Pi has PCBs for 100 beta $25 PCs
by joezydeco on Friday December 02, 2011 @11:58PM
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Populating them takes 10 times as long, if you're doing it by hand. If you're programming a pick-and-place bot and loading up reels of components, that takes time too.
Re:Raspberry Pi has PCBs for 100 beta $25 PCs
by sliverstorm on Saturday December 03, 2011 @02:18AM
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Sure, but nobody said you were going to populate all 100. The point is sometimes simply to have "enough" boards on hand for testing that you don't need to do another run.