Recurring advice from conversations I have with folks at other hardware startups is “prototype as blazingly fast as you possibly can"
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In prototyping -especially in the slow and limited physical world- impatience is a virtue. If not the primary virtue.
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@starsandrobots Solder skills take practice but it's worth it! If you think can't do it try anyway. -
@dbro_ better approach: skip soldering wherever possible -
@starsandrobots agreed, but sometimes you have to scab something to your ff board...if you have the skills it's faster than sending it out -
@dbro_ yeah I guess I presume the ability but I wouldn't make someone learn from scratch to prototype because that wouldn't save time
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I wonder if my twitter is up for a conversation about fav hardware prototyping techniques. Or whether maybe this is a workshop topic.
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Things that are unthinkable in product are massive time-savers in proto. Your thinking shifts-“how can I spend less than half a day on this"
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And that is - to go from Zero to Board
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One of the fastest prototypers I've ever met would tweak a board until 100% of nets would autoroute. This is inverted from product thinking.
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Do you know how disgusted most EEs are even thinking of that? But then one person gets to move on and the other is doing painstaking layout
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@starsandrobots At least until the board fails and you spend weeks debugging... -
@starsandrobots There is definitely a balance though. -
@ZetaSyanthis prototype's not supposed to last forerever! But yeah if you haven't learned what you need to move on..
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@starsandrobots Right! Dead-bug. Or literal bread-boards. We use to wire wrap on perf board, but that seems have fallen from favor. -
@sjfloat I have a wire wrap tool handy -
@starsandrobots I'm sure I still have a couple somewhere -- need to go dig them out. -
@sjfloat nice. Any other tips/techniques? -
@starsandrobots Guess it depends. I've been away from it a while. SMT rules now, eh? -
@sjfloat yeah though if you're prepared surfboards and such can work
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@starsandrobots Hot glue rules for this, completely and totally. -
@nocleverhandle hot glue 4 lyfe, basicaly -
@starsandrobots Pretty much. If you use the cheap shit, it's also easy to remove (critical for speedy changes). -
@nocleverhandle exactly, if you're Lockheed I think you use Envirogel - self healing potting compound. But even then hotglue has pros :)
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