The supply crisis has created obstacle after obstacle for creation of the electronics’ PCB. Simply, there are very few ICs to be found. Whichever PCB fabricator I approach is missing some component or other. Suppliers are out of stock on some major parts of the Minder 1 circuit. What little stock might exist has shot […]
The great Karim Yaghmour reflects upon what I’ve ended up going through: there is an enormous difference between cooking up a project using a standard dev board like an Arduino and self-printing a case for it, and actually charting a path to creating a finished product that can be mass-produced, marketed and supported. Karim Yaghmour. […]
No CPU stock, so a different CPU must be found and ported-to.
The worldwide supply crisis has resulted in a shortage of electronic components. While this has impacted large vendors more than it could me, it never the less has caused obstacles. The electronics of Minder1 have to be assembled onto a PCB, which is a distillation of the circuitry onto a small plate. This is done […]
One of the unforeseen consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic is the rise in, and the volatility of, the prices of integrated circuit (IC) chips made in China. ICs that were often less than a dollar, are now several dollars; a CPU that used to be $2 is now $15, affecting the base cost of the […]
In North America at least, much manufacturing has turned to what they call ‘low volume, high mix’. The story told is that, with large-volume manufacturing having been off-shored, what remains is only low-volume; for manufacturers to survive, they have to adapt to having lots of clients, ordering a variety of small jobs. Having designed the […]
Unknown to the general public is that, 1.5 years after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, there is a supply crisis. Large, Western firms–and presumably others, elsewhere–have trouble getting supplies from China. The ostensible Factory to the World cannot provide, thus becoming the bottle neck to consumption. In brief, shipping containers are at Los Angeles’ […]
The current hassle is getting shipments from China. Not that I am ready to order the product’s entire components; it is only a sample, for now, but I need to prepare for a coming, large shipment as well. But that is not like ordering from a shop; delivery has to be handled by _yourself_! That […]
