PiDP-1 production: update

Oscar Vermeulen

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Oct 22, 2025, 6:55:44 PMOct 22

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All,

In case you are waiting for a PiDP-1, let me give you a small update. Some frustration will shine through :-)

We've only been able to send out a few kits per day. We want to check every LED in every kit, because a few people reported a dead LED in the kit. And for every one that we know of, there might be another we do not know of!

Because it is deeply frustrating to replace a bad LED (fortunately, we do add spares) we saw no better option than to just test each one before sending out a kit. But that takes time and you also can't do more than a few hundred LEDS per day before you start having dark thoughts about life.

The solution from next month on will be that I will add a little component tester in each kit. That is useful anyway.

We're deeply frustrated because after NINE weeks we are still waiting for the second batch of PiDP-1 PCBs to be delivered. So we could not even send out many more kits even if we wanted... JLCPCB took 7 weeks for manufacturing (that never happened before), then there was a problem with shipping them over -- and now that is solved, the shipping cost of the PCBs came out to $25 per kit. That's not shipping the kit to builders: it is receiving the PCBs from JLCPCB ourselves. That is an insane cost, twice what it used to be, but so be it.

Never mind, but we hope to ramp up PiDP-1 kit 'production' soon. And thank you for the kind words of support we got :-)

Mike Ross

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Oct 22, 2025, 8:56:02 PMOct 22

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Sorry for all the troubles you've been having!

Any update on when pre-built units might be available? I expressed an interest in ordering two many months ago but never heard anything more?

Cheers

Mike

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