30 Jan 2021, 19:54
so, i decided to go game this out to see if it was as easy and cheap as youse were all making out - and it's not at all that. you're all conveniently missing the stage where you have to take a BOM that's just a table in a markdown file and turn that into a BOM that a PCB manufacturer will take and also placement files to get your components soldered in the right places - i am obviously not going to spend time doing this cause i'm not actually in the market for a PCB but pretending that this is like "hey mate download a zip file and press go it's easy" just isn't true at all.
so yeah i don't doubt you could get something cheaper if you do a bunch of legwork yourself but i could make my own clothes for cheaper than i could buy them in a store, but i don't do that because i don't have the skills or the time to do it. this seems like a similar situation. maybe this product is not for you, but i am still failing to see why this is such an affront to all of your sensibilities. could it be cause you all have a hateboner for andj?
personally, i can't wait for a state-owned enterprise to churn out keyboard parts for me after the revolution but until then, dogpiling on someone providing a service for people less able than you to go do it themselves seems like gatekeeping the hobby to me.
