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@aeva Never had any experience asking one of these things as they aren't in our area. We looked into it specifically for the tangara. For costs we can't tell but for what it entails, if the retro macs are anything to go by, you could get 3D printed case sub-assemblies and can print a PCB based on the schematic with the option to have resistors,diodes and other off-the-shelf parts soldered, but apparently missing the big IC's. so some soldering may still be required. That's as far as we can read.

@aeva No, but knowing the existence of replicas for old mac motherboards people can theoretically just download and ask their mousers and pcb ways to print would imply it is at least feasible to create a new Tangara from it's blueprints and bill of materials.

However, this feels like you're trying to angle the conversation in a way where you can lash out for suggesting that since the schematics and BOM's are FOSS, someone else could make a new run of devices on their own. So we're bailing out.

@aeva @griotspeak

Yeah, horrendous naming convention in our part.

Depending on where you are in the world you can ask some company to 3D print the case from it's schematics as well a send you a printed circuit board with most, if not all, the items on any given BOM soldered onto it. (probably outside of the MCU and display).

Of course there is nobody _manufacturing_ the tangaras but you probably can get most of it's components semi-assembled/soldered upon.

@griotspeak @aeva they basically stopped production in june last year, if you didn't get yours (we didn't) before summer, it's unlikely you'll get one.

HOWEVER, the BOM and schematics are all opensource, so nobody would step someone from hitting their local manufacturer and get the shell and PCB's and buttons printed