[thinkfat]

The economics of selling hardware are unfortunately not in my favour. To make it halfway viable I’d have to at least buy or make a reflow oven and rig a setup to apply the solder paste by stencil, otherwise it takes way too long to assemble a board.

I’ll have a closer look at assembly houses or full service providers like circuithub, but it seems that I’d need to have batches of at least 100 units at a time to drive down cost, which would be quite an investment.

I could probably provide single units hand-made with some lead time, but that’d be more a “labour-of-love” thing (or quite expensive).

Kits are an option. But, not many people would attempt hand assembly and the inevitable handling of returns for failed attempts would certainly kill the fun.

BR,
Matthias

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