On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 10:00 AM, joem joem@martindale-electric.co.uk wrote:
- You need the internal 3.3V line brought out from EOMA68 to one of the
pins for general circuit design reasons.
not going to happen. sorry. designs need to take that into account. apart from anything there will be boards in the future that don't *have* a 3.3V line (for whatever reason).
so not only was the time to say these things about 18 months ago but the answer would still have been no.
- Not sure about the USD75. Is it going to get cheaper any time soon?
in quantity 10k and above, probably yes. because they will be designed differently. and be a different product entirely. so... no.
plus remember that $75 is for *two* boards, and tax, and shipping, and testing, and packaging, and profit (a small one) and everything else.
strictly speaking the sale price should be double what it is.
- At the moment there is no way to cooperate with everyone using closed sources PCB packages and the list of hardware mistakes are piling up as cost somewhere. This is driving a wedge through all things good and possible. I only want to work in open sourced KiCAD. The limitations are not significant
they are a complete show-stopper for someone with my limited available time, lack of knowledge and insufficient expertise. simple as that.
to getting the real work done and avoiding undesirable future costs.
then i need people to take over designing these I/O Board PCBs.
as long as i am continuing to work without any visible day-to-day assistance i will continue to use the software that i have the capability to use and have confidence in.
l.