Turns out China closes early for their Chinese New Year. We knew this and planned accordingly, but we didn't plan on the PCB manufacturer to be slow, so we can't get everything pick&placed anymore (they don't take any new orders starting... two days ago...)
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So,we've got a good 350 boards and parts for them. They are just not attached to eachother yet ;). So very soon we'll organise one of the most logistically challenging sweatshops we've ever done. We're going to hand pick&place all 350 boards.
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Each board is 80 parts. 5 of them on the front, 75 on the back. Around 20 unique parts. Assuming a mediocre trained http://badge.team member can put 10 components on a board in a minute, we're looking at roughly 45 hours of labor (2500 minutes), JUST for p&p.
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45 hours sounds like an awful lot of tedious work, but it is what we're damn good at figuring out. So lets continue the math:
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45 hours split by 8 workers is 5,5 hours of labour. Wait... thats a single work day! We might even pull that off. We'd need a few more people for applying paste (through a stencil), people baking boards, and people moving stuff around and getting everyone drinks and snacks.
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We'd need to split each boards' parts into a few groups, so a worker can't mix up parts (don't give a single worker all values of the resistors, but give every worker a single type of that, and give them some other parts.)
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That way a worker can easily learn and memorize placement, speeding up and preventing mixups which would cause more workload.
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So yes, this crazy team is very soon going to ask you: will you help us place 350*80 = 28.000 (twenty-eight-THOUSAND) parts? We'd love to have at least 16-20 people present, with about 8 on p&p, some on hand-soldering other parts and the rest on the other jobs.
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As usual it's gonna be fun. We're proud of our 'sweatshops' and what we can achieve with our community. We'll keep you fed and hydrated throughout the day and at the end you can say 'i was part of http://badge.team and i didn't even get a t-shirt but that's okay!'
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Oh almost forgot, the sweatshop will happen at
@revspacenl on the edge of The Hague in the Netherlands. Date(s) will soon be announced!Prikaži ovu nit
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