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Project Update #22:
Posted by Abstrakt Instruments
Sep 8, 2020
We're back to work after a weeks vacation. Lots of parts have come in - highlights include the delivery of the I/O board, AS3080's, phone jacks, heat sinks, and the rest of the power supply enclosures:
Alfa Rpar AS3080
Phone Jacks
Heatsinks
The phone jacks were critical as the motherboard PCB's have been sitting waiting for these parts for assembly. They went out today to the assembly house.
Outsanding Parts
Below is the short list of parts we're still waiting for:
The flash IC's for the microcontroller modules finally arrived at Embedded Artists last week and they are making them now - delivery will not be dependent on this assembly.
The big elephant is the enclosure. They are overdue and have not shipped yet - they are scheduled to ship this week. We spent an extra 7-10 days supplying the artwork last month and it delayed them a little. This became irrelevant when we realized the manufacturer made the front panels w/ the previous revision files and had to remake them again (the production files for the front panel contain countersinks for the potentiometers so the knobs are spaced perfectly with the panel). We will have a better idea on ETA when they are on the boat.
Firmware
We need all the time we can get to finalize a production ready firmware. Even w/ all the delays there have been so far we would have still needed this time to work on the firmware. We will finally start demoing all the new features once we get a few production enclosures here. We haven't had a fully working unit w/sound hooked up for several weeks now. Also, we've been very cautious not to demo any features with sound until all production level parts are in place and the firmware is fully tested.
The ship dates will be determined by the firmware. We won't estimate revised dates but there's no long term delay - we're week to week. The DIY kits may start shipping while the firmware is in beta.
DIY Kits
These are a lot of busy work. For the parts kits most of the simple parts have been packed into individual kits already (resistors, capacitors etc...). We still need to pack all of the connectors, some of the IC's and all of hardware that has arrived recently. The pic below is the rest of the parts.
Diy Parts
Posted by Abstrakt Instruments
Sep 8, 2020
We're back to work after a weeks vacation. Lots of parts have come in - highlights include the delivery of the I/O board, AS3080's, phone jacks, heat sinks, and the rest of the power supply enclosures:
Alfa Rpar AS3080
Phone Jacks
Heatsinks
The phone jacks were critical as the motherboard PCB's have been sitting waiting for these parts for assembly. They went out today to the assembly house.
Outsanding Parts
Below is the short list of parts we're still waiting for:
- Enclosure [new date October 12th! see below]
- Microcontroller module [TBD but estimated September 28]
- 10k trimpot (chorus board) [September 8th (should be here this week)]
- 1nF polysytrene caps (voice card DIY kits only) [September 17th]
- 10-pin header (voice cards DIY kits only) [September 18th]
The flash IC's for the microcontroller modules finally arrived at Embedded Artists last week and they are making them now - delivery will not be dependent on this assembly.
The big elephant is the enclosure. They are overdue and have not shipped yet - they are scheduled to ship this week. We spent an extra 7-10 days supplying the artwork last month and it delayed them a little. This became irrelevant when we realized the manufacturer made the front panels w/ the previous revision files and had to remake them again (the production files for the front panel contain countersinks for the potentiometers so the knobs are spaced perfectly with the panel). We will have a better idea on ETA when they are on the boat.
Firmware
We need all the time we can get to finalize a production ready firmware. Even w/ all the delays there have been so far we would have still needed this time to work on the firmware. We will finally start demoing all the new features once we get a few production enclosures here. We haven't had a fully working unit w/sound hooked up for several weeks now. Also, we've been very cautious not to demo any features with sound until all production level parts are in place and the firmware is fully tested.
The ship dates will be determined by the firmware. We won't estimate revised dates but there's no long term delay - we're week to week. The DIY kits may start shipping while the firmware is in beta.
DIY Kits
These are a lot of busy work. For the parts kits most of the simple parts have been packed into individual kits already (resistors, capacitors etc...). We still need to pack all of the connectors, some of the IC's and all of hardware that has arrived recently. The pic below is the rest of the parts.
Diy Parts
