I agree with Robert. I might add: I think the point is that you should not _have to_ wip out a soldering iron, in this day and age. Aside from the classical appeal of soldering and prototyping your own.. You should be able to find someone in the community to do at least part of the hardware engineering for you, or any type of specific service. There are lots of computer engineers (h/w geeks) waiting to do such, with-out wasting the time of those who frankly might want to remain doing software / system-level work rather than futzing with a soldering iron and magnifier. Robert might be able to go the west-end and find someone in less than a day. This is the era of modular design: Plug-able modules in a computer system management paradigm is the norm now. If it's not the designers goal to tweak hardware; then they can simply hire-out. Everyone in Ottawa seems hell-bent on getting their hardware on. That's not the way to run a multi-sectoral high-tech empire. I should be able to find a dude to prototype an interface between two modules, in short-order, as there are plenty who have already toiled and learned the hard way themselves, now they are pre-forked for duty and quite able. Why make yet another embedded company out of some-one who might have made good time on existing modular board/designs. They'll likely end-up spending more time with the h/w interfacing then, and loose track of the original point, as they end-up in tweaker heaven. - AF On 12/13/11, linux-request [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca <linux-request [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca> wrote: > Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 04:40:31 -0500 (EST) > From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday [ at ] crashcourse [ dot ] ca> > Subject: [OCLUG-Tech] anyone local do really fine soldering? > > > just got my new pandaboard ES: > > http://pandaboard.org/content/resources/references > > and as you can see, there are a number of expansion options on the > board screaming for connectors to be attached. i don't have that kind > of equipment or skill -- anyone around here capable of doing that? > > rday > > -- > > ======================================================================== > Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA > http://crashcourse.ca > > Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday > LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday > ========================================================================