Wow that’s really generous of you, thank you! I will DM you!
Wow that’s really generous of you, thank you! I will DM you!
Thank you! Yes, proof of concept is designed in CAD and functionally working via 3D printing, off the shelf hardware, Arduino based software I programmed. However, it doesn’t make sense to ship an Arduino in each product because the cost of an Arduino is high since it comes with a plethora of I/O that for a broad set of use cases.
So migrating to a purpose-driven board seems to be pretty standard. Yes, I believe I would want to get help on that, as the time it would take me to learn PCB design and part selection might be much longer than I could afford.
But at least the scope of that part is clear.
But for things like DC motors, AC to DC converters, even down to a particular capacitor or switch… how do you go from off the shelf parts to an optimized set of cost effective parts?
Thank you! That’s helpful…by the way are industrial engineers usually a part of an industrial design firm, or are they separate?
Combination of Digikey, Amazon… I’m starting to look at mouser and Alibaba as well. I use McMaster Carr for hardware components. My two thoughts are:
So either my expectation of how much they cost is wrong, or companies usually get really cost effective suppliers that I can’t see from my own searching.