On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 08:59:46AM -0500, Paul Koning wrote: > > > > I am and possibly the Update computer club and some of it's members. > > However, I have very little experience with making hardware. How would > > we aproach this? > > There are plenty of companies in the "prototype production" business; they > will make either blank printed circuit boards, or assembled boards, in small > quantities. For our purposes a group build probably counts as "small > quantity". One I can think of (and have used for blank PCBs) is PCB Pool. > > Depending on the parts involved and the skill level of the consumers, it may > be reasonable to get blank boards and a parts bag and have the user assemble > it -- or it may be better to let professionals do the assembly. >
I'm quite confident with a soldering iron when it comes to through hole components. I haven't looked at the BOM for this project yet but I guess there are surface mount components. Perhaps an opportunity to learn. /P
