Puma board (spin 1)

[nitrousnrg]

Paypal account ready.

I went today to check postage costs but the bastards closed the post office earlier than they should.

Still, I just wanted to be sure, but these are the shipping costs I'm expecting (usd)

$4 up to 100g
$11 up to 500g
$20 up to 1kg

Source:
http://www.correoargentino.com.ar/preci ... o.php#ctps

I guess "PayPal Email Payments" is the simpler choice, so if everyone agrees, we'll do it that way (and as a consequence, I need everyone's mail). If someone argues, tell me why, never used paypal before.

Cheers

[Fred]

No one will argue, and I can get you most, if not all, of their emails, if you mean you want to bill them. That's a terrible idea, though, what you want to do is have them send the money to you as a gift, then paypal will not take a share, and/or they pay the fees, not you, which is fair.

Give each person your paypal email and the amount that they owe you after they give you the address and you get a shipping quote for them (and after you receive the boards!!!).

In the mean time, get me your paypal email so that I can pass it on to someone that wants it very much!

Fred.

[Quan-Time]

yup im happy. AS much as i hate paypal, its "easy".

Shipping to Adelaide, Australia, please quote

[nitrousnrg]

hi quan,

there are no cost differences between Australia and Canada, it only varies with the weight. So basically, it depends on the number of boards. If the 37 are over 2000gr, then 2 might pass the 100gr barrier. Unless they use heavy boxes, who knows.

[nitrousnrg]

oh, sorry, I didn't answer.

5 + 4 = $9 for one board
5 + 5 + 11 = $21 for 2

Its only an approximation. I have to weigh the pcbs

[nitrousnrg]

Some important information for those who are building it from scartch:
viewtopic.php?f=37&t=1000

If someone wants the board with the MCU flashed, let me know. Price is different (add mcu/crystal/some pasives + taxes) and lead time... who knows. I'm not 100% sure to be able to assemble many boards quickly.

[Fred]

If you have someone in your country that you can post your assembled or partly assembled board to who has a BDM, then you won't need to do this. I should have one, and if not, will get one, so NZ will be covered.

What would be nice is if we can get the chips preprogrammed with the SM before assembly. I wonder if TA can do this. I might flick them an email now asking about supplying programmed chips. If they can't, perhaps we can furnish Marcos with a socket programmer so that he can batch prcess MCUs for us to use and slip them into envelopes with the PCBs.

Fred.

[nitrousnrg]

I don't know anyone who have a bdm pot. Still, it cost $10, so no problem.

You don't want a socket for a QFP112:
http://www.elnec.com/products/programmi ... IF_HCS12-1
Plus, making the mcu pass through Argentina only to put some bytes in it doesn't have much sense (importation taxes, shipments, etc).

We'll be fine with a BDM pod per builder

[nitrousnrg]

Ok, new info about postage:

1. it costs $15. The number I've put before was for a "simple package", but it isn't tracked. So, sending a tracked package costs $15. This is valid up to 500gr.

2. No international shipments until the climate at the north hemisphere gets better. I wonder if fedex will bring me the PCBs anyway.

[Fred]

Marcos, re shipping costs and tracking, unless you have a reason not to, give people the option to choose. If the tracking costs more than the board, I suspect people will mostly not take that option :-) For groups of boards it makes sense, but for singles not so much.

2) What? Really? Not even to non northern parts? Weird...

Fred.