willcarkner

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by willcarkner 1mo ago
We can do this by continuing to give them work. They are currently happy with us routing jobs through them, and I expect this to continue. It means they don't have to go searching for customers.
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by willcarkner 1mo ago
1. Through partner fabs located mainly in the Bay Area but also across the US. 2,3,4. Some of our partner fabs can, publishing a detailed spec sheet asap
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by willcarkner 1mo ago
1) Well noted, we are working on fixing that 2) Agreed, fixed with 1) 3) We should be more clear about testing. We offer a range of tests (in house x-ray, functional, bring-up) that we should show more clearly. 4) This will be made more cle
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by willcarkner 1mo ago
Everything in stock on US distributors, but we will make a tool for this too.
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by willcarkner 1mo ago
A PCB design tool that has manufacturing built in, for use by humans or agents.
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by willcarkner 1mo ago
That's exactly what we are trying to do.
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by willcarkner 1mo ago
True, there are a few standout cases of larger CMs. Tempo was the poster child and they did a lot of things right. MacroFab and CircuitHub will be great competitors to have, and as stated in earlier threads we believe our edge will come fro
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by willcarkner 1mo ago
Absolutely. Let's do it for everything
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by willcarkner 1mo ago
I would be super interested in chatting. Sending a DM.
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by willcarkner 1mo ago
Yes and no, I could imagine a system where they have on demand capacity with a company like us and pay for that service.
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by willcarkner 1mo ago
#1 price is more expensive than China, parts availability is higher. #2 it is accessible, but more expensive so if cost is your main constraint it's not the right choice.
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by willcarkner 1mo ago
Yes we're going to build that into it. In the pipeline definitely.
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by willcarkner 1mo ago
You're right. I'm updating the website with capabilities now. The NDA simplification is also a good idea, we will implement that as well. Thanks!
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by willcarkner 1mo ago
Yes, a bunch of companies offer it but we aim to make it more available for a lower cost.
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by willcarkner 1mo ago
Yes that's where we're putting our energy right now. We do most of our assembly with CMs now, but looking at Juki when we open our facility.
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by willcarkner 1mo ago
Ok, fair points. 2. is our focus right now and then we may add 1. over time.
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by willcarkner 1mo ago
Youtube tutorials are pretty great to get started
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by willcarkner 1mo ago
Very interesting, I'm wondering if that low-utilization rate justifies the capex of building a line.
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by willcarkner 1mo ago
In this case specifically they also have a huge amount of automation and process learnings from being around for 20+ years.
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by willcarkner 1mo ago
Yes I agree. If it turns out that there is not enough demand to service in defense, we can use the optimizations found from the defense market to take a stab at the general market. It doesn't make sense to start with that off the bat.
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by willcarkner 1mo ago
Agreed completely. The recent bans are one way of doing this but not the most sustainable long term at all. We have two options, give up and allow China to control all production, or start the hard battle to improve manufacturing here.
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by willcarkner 1mo ago
Updating that as we speak.
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by willcarkner 1mo ago
Wow. Sounds like a super interesting product. Hadn't considered lines of credit yet, but definitely would be valuable to some higher ticket customers.
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by willcarkner 1mo ago
Yes macrofab has a great service. We are best for quick turn, but long term we aim to cater for production as well. All in good time.
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by willcarkner 1mo ago
yes, what was the utilization like?
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by willcarkner 1mo ago
Yes, though it was only somewhat recently that they transitioned to building their own automated facility. We don't plan to do the design ourselves, we realize that our users will be using AI design tools that need to be integrated wit
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by willcarkner 1mo ago
Yes even if the success rates are 1/10 they are still causing serious damage for their cost in modern conflicts. Agreed that the hype is overstated.
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by willcarkner 1mo ago
It's important to focus on where real innovation in the space is happening, and to me that's in drones. Some of the hype is overstated but drones are the new additions to conflict, and they're clearly not going away.
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by willcarkner 1mo ago
Circuit hub has something very interesting in the works. They're a few steps ahead of us. We however plan to own the full stack, from design to board bring-up and testing. We believe that design is becoming commoditized with AI tools,
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by willcarkner 1mo ago
Volume unit costs matter a lot. What matters less is cost during prototyping and development, where speed to iteration becomes way more important.

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