If you're in Shenzen you can take a walk and pick up all the components you need for your prototype project in the morning and assemble them in the afternoon.
Here in the US we have to order the components from china and it takes weeks to months.
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @09:44AM (#50574153)
This may be true for manufacturing, but is completely wrong for prototype work. If you need electronic parts, you call up a vendor and they overnight samples. You need an aluminum housing, you go to the machine shop across town. Same story for plastics. Same story for circuit boards. Frankly, if you are making heavy use of expedited services, there is something wrong with your engineering process.
no duh (Score:5, Insightful)
If you're in Shenzen you can take a walk and pick up all the components you need for your prototype project in the morning and assemble them in the afternoon.
Here in the US we have to order the components from china and it takes weeks to months.
Re:no duh (Score:0)
This may be true for manufacturing, but is completely wrong for prototype work. If you need electronic parts, you call up a vendor and they overnight samples. You need an aluminum housing, you go to the machine shop across town. Same story for plastics. Same story for circuit boards. Frankly, if you are making heavy use of expedited services, there is something wrong with your engineering process.