Again, to reiterate, because I am still seeing evidence of "complaints" out there, from people who believe this should be easy: these are absolutely ridiculously tiny components and tolerances, and the budget on which it's being done is equally as frugal. 0.05mm on the edge of a PCB. 0.2 mm wide pins, with 0.2mm clearance between them. A "normal" Single-Board Computer product from any other well-funded Corporation would use large (Type A) HDMI, top-mounted, with plenty of tolerances and no need for the PCB edge to be accurately milled.
Again, to reiterate: we do not know what will need to be solved next. Therefore, a production date simply cannot be provided, and that really is the end of the matter. Or, the answer is: the production date is "the production time plus the unknown time to solve unknown and unknowable future issues".
Mike is sending me the 20 "good" PCBs so that I can test them here, to see if they are okay. The staff will continue with the rest by shaving the burrs on the PCB on every single one of the remaining 80 with an xacto-knife, before putting them through the production line. It is looking like I will need to do the testing of all 100 of this preliminary production run, here, at my home, in Taiwan.
It does sound complicated, I wish you the best on this. My hope is that you will find the correct balance and succeed Luke.
When it ships successfully, let us all know with some big bold letters email title please. :)
Actually... I just realized I didn't trim it enough, my bad. :(