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points by jrexilius 1 day ago | 0 comments
I've been using Macrofab for a couple years now and their experience is MUCH smoother. Prices are a bit higher, but for me, that is not an issue.
[–] redanddead 1 day ago
How high?
[–] fhn 1 day ago
1 million per piece. this is only for customers where price is not an issue.
[–] TrainedMonkey 1 day ago
Not familiar with the issue, but that has to be $1m minimum order, correct? And you would get a production run in 1-10k. How many revs does that include?

My understanding is that Shenzhen dominance so far is from 3 pillars - low minimum order size, low per-part price, and fast response. They can do that because they have lot of highly trained labor that work mad hours. So to compete you would need to leverage a lot of automation... which would be a lot less flexible and very rocky at the start. Would love to get a correction from someone more familiar with the situation.

[–] pianoben 1 day ago
Surely you mean $1m per project and not per board, and projects are at a large scale?
[–] aeve890 1 day ago
> 1 million per piece

Zimbabwean dollars I hope because 1 million usd PER BOARD?

[–] Mistletoe 1 day ago
Pray it doesn’t need RAM.
[–] redanddead 1 day ago
The Zimbabwean mint has never been busier
[–] MisterTea 1 day ago
There aren't enough trees on earth.
[–] bauruine 1 day ago
Finally a use case for Knuth's up-arrow notation in daily life.