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Control Guy
#1 Posted : Tuesday, January 17, 2012 6:13:38 PM(UTC)
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Hey,


 


Has anyone taken a project using Gadgeteer and actually mass-produced something? What do you do for the circuit design for the board? I have a project that would be crazy expensive if I used the prototype board itself.


Thanks!


Ed
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#2 Posted : Wednesday, January 18, 2012 9:02:16 AM(UTC)
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I haven't seen anything like that yet. 



What do you do for the circuit design for the board?



Do you mean what software to use to design a board? Eagle is pretty much a standard if you don't want to spend any moneyand you board is 2 layers and small enough. Otherwise you have some options based on how much you want to spend.


 


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Simon Taylor
#3 Posted : Friday, January 20, 2012 3:03:40 AM(UTC)
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At Sytech Designs, we specialise in .NET Micro Framework design, Hardware, firmware and software. We manufacture the NANO Mainboard and a range of modules. Our core business is industrial embedded design.


One of our services is taking your prototype ideas and turning them into a custom production design. Send us details of your gadgeteer prototype and we can quote for an integrated production board, all our design work is done in house and the boards are also built using our in house surface mount assembliy facility.


We also supply design services for extending the Micro Framework using Interop and Native code, we supply a complete BSP for the Meridian based NANO board, allowing you to develop interop extensions and compile with GCC tools.


Our Gadgeteer range is on www.gadgeteerguy.com , our main site is www.sytechdesigns.com  . I can be contatced at enquiries@sytechdesigns.com
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ransomhall
#4 Posted : Saturday, January 21, 2012 6:56:22 AM(UTC)
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Ed - this is a new platform, so examples of a gadgeteer prototype to production component are probably rare or even nonexistent.  Unless someone is doing an open source project, I doubt you'll find many folks willing to provide details before releasing something. That darn competitive advantage thing gets in the way ;-)


Simon - have you helped anybody move to a production component that you can tell us about? Any projects of your own? Please try to sound less like an advertisement when replying to questions here.


Make NETMF Sense
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Arbiter
#5 Posted : Tuesday, April 24, 2012 4:42:27 AM(UTC)
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Autorouting multi-layer boards with attention to EM effects, heat distribution and placement of connectors is a hard problem but it's exactly the sort of thing Microsoft Research is good at. What I want is a Cooperesque component designer that lets me describe what I've built by dropping "boards" on a a design surface so I can connect them, specify a board size, specify the spatial placement of connectors on it and "compile" to an eagle file that I can send to a Chinese fabricator.


If MS Research cooks up such a product - lets go out on a limb and call it "Microsoft Gadgeteer" - then I assure all you Microsoft Beancounters that I will have my credit card out so fast it will make your head spin.


It would be even better if there were support in the MS Gadgeteer package for designating pins as inputs and outputs and automagically adding protection.


Build this and you will change Gadgeteer from an interesting toy into the Visual Basic of hardware.
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Kerry H
#6 Posted : Wednesday, April 25, 2012 1:43:03 PM(UTC)
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A "compile to PCB" tool would indeed be awesome, and would be a source of great papers for the researcher who manages to build it! :)

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Kerry Hammil
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