Insights

Don't aim for a perfect first version, but learn from the first version as fast as possible. A post by Bart van Arnhem (Orbisk) got me thinking about how electronics is making the same leap as software.

The real question isn't how to save €1000 on a protoPCBA, but what it costs if you can only test a week later. Why we look at the Total Cost of Development.

A prototype has only one goal: to learn as fast as possible. Why a parallel track saves hardware teams weeks.

A CEO with a €100k monthly burn rate asked me what a week of waiting costs him. The answer changes the entire cost equation of prototyping.

The biggest costs in hardware development aren't in the PCBA, but in the time between iterations.

If sample 1 or 2 already tells you enough, it's a waste to assemble the rest.

How DeltaProto's iteration approach combines speed and cost savings, and why green PCBs are better for AOI.

Looking back on a year full of lessons, iterations and improvements.

How the Delft Solar Team drove to first place with last-minute iterations at DeltaProto.

How we build our own TestJigs to program and test PCBA's, and what we learned through iteration.

80% of all ProtoPCBA's need at least one extra iteration. This one required a creative soldering solution.