On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 8:04 PM, Andreas Grapentin andreas@grapentin.org wrote:
On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 07:43:07PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
[...] it's $USD 2000 a time or so to make 10 samples. i have 9 available working 2.7.4 samples and 9 microdesktop v1.7 pcbs.
So it's 200 $USD for one card plus microdesktop pcb?
yyyeah roughly. i forget how much the microdesktop samples were but it's nothing like the cost of the A20 samples. DHL will be... $50 maybe $70, i'll look it up.
That is manageable. Let me know where I should transfer the money and I will do that ASAP.
if you have a usb-to-uart (usual FT232 thing will do) and a soldering iron that would help.
yup, plenty of those around.
awesome. one less thing for me to do. i'll take a photo so you have the pinouts. just fyi if you look at the microdesktop longways with the 20-pin 2.54mm DIL nearest to you and left-right it's GND in the front right corner then TX/RX to the left of those, i forget which is which.
also if you can arrange pickup (e.g. DHL) that would be really helpful.
I am not sure what that entails - could you elaborate? I was assuming the card would just be shipped to my home address. I am not familiar with dhl pickup, and a quick search didn't produce anything useful.
google "DHL scheduled pickup taiwan": http://www.dhl.com.tw/en/express/shipping/pickup.html
mm.... depending on the bank account i might be able to just arrange shipping: i'll have to talk to my partner to find out which bank account has a means and method of paying DHL.
very important: i will mark them as "sample of negligeable value" on the cards themselves and on the customs form.
good, let's see how that goes. I'm consistently having trouble with packages that go through customs; must be on some kind of watchlist.
if you're receiving a lot of stuff, regularly, and it's not a business address then yeah they might get edgy. that being the case it might be better to use Fedex. Fedex are much better: they handle customs payment on your behalf and make damn sure to actually do what they promise: deliver on time.
http://www.fedex.com/tw_english/pickup/
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