@jacqueline @ailurux @buzzyrobin @ErinRose
Heya tangara team, I've been following your project since its beginning and bloody love everything about it! Fantastic job <3
I was thinking of ordering all the parts and building one myself- Not through Crowd supply.
One idea led to the next one and with a good amount of my friends being interested in building one of these themselves I'd love to host a small workshop at 38c3!
I wanna write down some of my thoughts and hear yours in this thread :)
I'll keep y'all posted in this thread but for now I wanna know if in general you're open to the idea of your project being used in this way.
I'm thinking of aiming this workshop at intermediate to expert Makers who have experience with smd soldering.
I think it'd be awesome for y'all too to have some CCC hackers go at it and contribute to the software after they finish building theirs aswell!
Our friends over at CCC release a style guide every year and I'd love to incorporate it into tangara's design. A uniquie tangara you can only get at 38c3! (or DIY it because I'll be releasing all modified source files ofc)
Check out the one from last year. It was seriously so goddamn cool!
I've done kits in the past for friends and people at my hackerspace, usually selling them for the price I bought all components for.
And let me be clear that I'm not interested in making any big profits from this workshop. I do this for fun.
So I was thinking of selling all parts needed as a kit in person at Congress. I will be charging just enough to cover my expenses (plus a mate or two) for these kits.
@jacqueline @buzzyrobin @ailurux
Going through the PCB right now to understand it better...
What made you choose a 4 layer PCB? I don't see any traces at all on the middle two layers. Instead the entire layers are part of the GND net.
My guess is they serve some electrical purpose, maybe some shielding to prevent interference. Important when it comes to audio!
@jacqueline @buzzyrobin @ailurux thought so, thanks!
Sidenote, what's your prefered means of communication?
@Nici nice. make sure to double check the DNP field. happy to double check the final list as well.
also see: https://git.sr.ht/~jacqueline/tangara-hw/tree/main/item/BOM.md (might need a small update tho… for the ffc cable in particular there’s a cheap lcsc part i like)
@jacqueline y'all probably know first hand how expensive those bloody panels can be in an color except green. We were wondering if we could just get jlcpcb to slap a whole lot of white silkscreen on the green pcb to make it white, saving a lot of money.
You reckon that would impact its functionality in any way?
@Nici yeah... they end up being quite cheap per-unit at the quantities we've been getting them, but they are exxy in small batches.
making them white with silkscreen won't affect functionality, but the white printing might be a bit streaky.
worst case, we do have a decent overage of these. happy to send you a bundle of them if it helps!
Nici
jacquelines 🌟