Ian Dunn on Nostr: Yea totally. There's lots of things I'd like to try, but would just be too expensive ...

Yea totally. There's lots of things I'd like to try, but would just be too expensive to have a PCB house assemble. For example a board with 50 to 100 0402 passives I'd have to spend about a day hand soldering, or I could have every prototype assembled at the board house. Either is expensive so I'd probably just not even try something like that. But with a pick and place it's no problem. Plus there's always the possibility that I'll put a 5.1 ohm resistor on the BOM instead of a 5.1K ohm resistor and not catch it until the entire assembled batch of 800 boards is finished and delivered to me. Been there, done that! If I'm doing the assembly then I'm going to figure this out after the very first board.