PortaPack Manufacturing Update
Update on 2015/07/23: The PortaPack H1 is now available in the ShareBrained store.
The PortaPack H1 is progressing. The hardware design is stable – just tiny tweaks at this point. I have purchased and received enough components to build 250 units. There are a few components I'm having trouble sourcing, but have some good leads and am optimistic I'll have that resolved by early next week. I have several quotes for assembly and have picked my preferred assembler.
So what's left? There's the lead time for the remaining components (I've been told "4 to 6 weeks"), the lead time for the production PCBs (3 weeks), and assembly (about a week). The remaining components and PCBs are both requirements for assembly. So it could be 5 to 7 weeks before I can ship to Kickstarter backers and my retailers. It's getting close. All this cat-herding is a lot of work!
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Jared,
Your H1 looks so far like the single coolest gizmo I've seen in many years. My dream, always unattainable, has been to be able to explore the RF spectrum. I've never had the $10k or access to commercial or academic labs to ever have the chance. Your doohickey (combined with the HackRF) is the coolest, cheapest, lightest, most balls access to technology and the rf spectrum that I have ever heard of - and I've been reading about this stuff for a while.
Whatever I can do to help you refine your product - I hope you'll ask.
I love your go-it-all alone spirit and I've dreamt about designing stuff just like you are doing for decades. I'm envious - on a technical level - or your garage phase biz. I hope things for you are going swimmingly - outside of the stresses you will incur as Mr. Ossmann surely has. The pressure will be on.
Best of luck!
Cyrus
any news of the manafacturing ? thanks