Well, I’ve ordered the last components I need, and also ordered a batch of PCBs!

For the past few weeks, I’ve been fine tuning the PCB, slowly improving fidelity to the original. Every few days I would find another little feature in the original, that I didn’t notice before. Almost all of these changes are cosmetic and wouldn’t affect functionality. Last cosmetic improvement was this morning. I guess I finally decided that it was close enough. To be truthful, I’ve been worried about accidentally breaking something functional. Getting boards of this size made, is very expensive and a batch of bad boards would set me back a pretty penny. I should have the PCBs within a couple of weeks. Next step will be assembling, testing and writing the assembly manual!

My waiting/interest list for kits is small, but steadily growing. If you are interested, send me a line and I’ll add you to it. If you are not an experienced electronics kit builder, or not completely comfortable with hooking up transformers to 110AC. I would recommend starting with one of Vince Briel’s A1 kits, which are significantly easier to put together for a variety of reasons. Once I get the first set of kits together, I’ll be offering them for sale, first on the list, first opportunity to buy. This should be sometime in Feburary.

In case you have been following my non-Apple 1 blog entries, the loose fuel line problem on my Malibu has been rectified and the fuel gage is operating perfectly.