[arm-allstar] Market for pre-soldered usb fobs????

[harry]

Dave,

I too was thinking about making a board. Perhaps we should compare notes?

Harry KC4RPP

 

From: arm-allstar-bounces at hamvoip.org [mailto:arm-allstar-bounces at hamvoip.org] On Behalf Of Dave Miller
Sent: Monday, August 10, 2015 12:27 PM
To: ARM Allstar
Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] Market for pre-soldered usb fobs????

 

I have designed both a Cape for BBB and a board for the RP!2 that has a CM119 on it along with a few other goodies. They are not as cheap as a $3 dongle but have some good features and should have decent performance. 

I have to do some final testing but the BBB is Rev 2 so it should work.

If they is any interest I and try to get to testing them soon.

I can make them available as a bare PCB or assembled based on interest.

All parts except CM119 are available from Digikey if I recall.

If there is any interest I am happy to share some boards or prebuilt with a few people for testing. My interest seems to be more in designing and building the boards then testing them fully ;-)  Please send me emails directly.
Dave
VE7HR/ VE7PKE

 

 

On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 9:00 AM, David McGough <kb4fxc at inttek.net> wrote:


Hi Everyone,

I hear varying comments from hams about not being able to solder the COS
and PTT signal wires to the CM108 chips in the low-cost fobs.

Personally, I find the soldering easy to do, it's mostly about technique
used and having a good quality soldering station--but, I've also done
-lots- of surface mount assembly work in a previous life.

It's worth noting that once you've built a perhaps three fobs from $3
adapters, you've saved enough money over purchasing pre-built URI's, etc.,
to buy a quality temperature-controlled soldering station (I use a Weller
WESD51).

So, I'll ask the question: is there a market for pre-soldered fobs? I'm
not talking a completed interface, just the COS and PTT wires attached,
like seen in this photo:

http://hamvoip.org/photos/P1040026.JPG

BTW, I'm NOT trying to get into business! But, just wondering....


73, David KB4FXC


On Mon, 10 Aug 2015, Pierre Martel wrote:

> Thanks for the info.
>
> He already destroyed 4 fob and the New one he got are all blob  not the
> chips.
>
> Too bad it wont work with i/o
>
>

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