Great news, I just made payment to Seeed Studio to start manufacturing the first batch of boards! They expect to easily meet the December delivery time frame and may even have them completed in November. 🙂 We had a bit of a scare and a last minute scramble due to a global shortage of ATmega32U4 chips in the QFN package. We were actually ready to start manufacturing the boards at the beginning of October but were unable to find ATmega32U4 chips in any of the normal distribution channels! Digikey reported that chips should be back in stock on November 5th, which would be enough time manufacture the Papilio DUO by December. But, it has been my experience that you can’t trust those estimated stock dates, if that date were to slip at all we would not be able to deliver the Papilio DUO in December. So Seeed Studio and I sprang into action after discovering that there was quite a bit of stock of the ATmega32U4 chip in the TQFP footprint available. I quickly made a new revision of the Papilio DUO board that has both the QFN and TQFP footprint and Seeed Studio was kind enough to rush the updated design through their prototyping service. They already have all of the parts lined up and are now doing the final tests with the prototype, as soon as it passes they will put the DUO on their production line. Here are pictures of the prototypes […]
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