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Gertboard - The Element14 strikes back

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Oh dear. It seems that If I "Fluke PiStalker" want to obtain a Deathstar beating Gertboard from the Element14 Empire. I have to pay £30 quid and then go all "Hands Solo" from "Solder Wars" fame. (if the farce is with my at the time) Thats a big shame really cos I would have paid £40 willinging for one assemmbled by "R2D2" or some other Solder super Driod.

 

It looks then as if I will have to go remain Fluke PiStalker and wait for a Droid to build me one.

 

Come on Gert please chase the powers that be to get some assembled versions on the go for poor old guys like me whose idea or circuit assemmbly was screwing and fixing a couple of bits a BakerLite together 60 years ago. image

 

Seriously Gert a fantastic job great to see them in the wild but we cant all solder however easy it is, Take Pity Darth Gert and sort it for us.

 

That tale was NOT bought to you by any members of any film companies on the planet Earth. image

 

Just to keep the balls and games rolling ahead is my target.

 

Ray

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  • Yeah... I had the same reaction as Ray. I wonder how the law stands on needing to solder something together when it has been pre-pictured all assembled?

    I've just soldered one of the capacitors back onto the Pi and that was my first attempt at it.

    I'm really not happy about needing to do it to something that costs £30... Perhaps one of the other starter kits would be a better idea?

     

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    Mike

  • in reply to recantha

    I kind of understand, although Gert has answered some of the questions like this in the front page post on Raspi.org.

    I was a bit taken aback at the price myself to be honest, but I'm very much a beginner in all things interfacy and i'm expecting this will be the best supported. For that, I'm guessing it is worth the premium, although like many other times, I could well be wrong.

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  • in reply to recantha

    I kind of understand, although Gert has answered some of the questions like this in the front page post on Raspi.org.

    I was a bit taken aback at the price myself to be honest, but I'm very much a beginner in all things interfacy and i'm expecting this will be the best supported. For that, I'm guessing it is worth the premium, although like many other times, I could well be wrong.

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  • in reply to GreenYamo

    I was a bit taken aback at the price myself to be honest,

    I don't think it's too bad when you start to look at it, and could be quite close to straight parts cost.  You can get a good idea of the BOM from looking at the user and assembly manuals, but for example the 'Arduino' is 6.55, the motor driver 8.49, so it soon adds up.  I'd hope the kit comes as only the required number of parts - there's a 0.1 ohm resistor that's 19p, but a minimum order qty of 50 which would be painful.

     

    Still, in some ways and for some people it might be better to simply sell the PCB on it's own and provide a BOM. That way if you're not interested in the motor controller or Arduino you could save yourself a bit of money. I seem to remember one of the original suggestions was to sell a bare PCB, so maybe Gert will do that later.

     

    Meanwhile I'm blaming Gert for buying up all the stocks of 0.1" headers and various caps, leaving the ones I want on backorder image