How do I even manufacture a device ?

Hello All,

I am a newbie to the field and I am kind off intrigued on how people manfucture small electronic devices. That is, say, I have an idea: to make a "calculator" kind of device that can take the amount of time you run as an input and gives the calories burnt as output.

How would I manufacture such a device ? Do I write a computer program, give it to some manufacturer (say, in China) or should I sit and design the hardware blocks ??

Any help would be greatly appreciated (I am kind of really curious :))

thanks srini

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srinivasan.murali
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It's easy to tell. Don't do this:

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JeffM

oops !! I am sorry. I haven't used the groups that much before and didn't know about multi and cross posting :(

Thanks for pointing out and sorry again.

sr> sr> >I am a newbie

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srinivasan.murali

Also don't top-post. Your answer belongs after the material to which you reply, after snipping irrelevant material. See the references in my sig below.

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CBFalconer

You get a job at a company that makes things and learn for a few years.

Reply to
Jim Stewart

You design a circuit board and send documentation to a PCB fab (foreign or domestic). Programs to develop the necessary documentation are available for fairly reasonable prices (maybe even some shareware). You then need to either stuff and solder the board yourself or find someone to do it. The toughest part may be designing and building the packaging for a device such as you describe. I modify standard enclosures on a milling machine for low volume products. Plastic molds are very expensive and need large volumes to amortize.

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Gary Reichlinger

If you mention China as a possible place of manufacturing, you seem to hav a commercial device in mind. I think it is important to mention that there are many more legal chalanges than mechanical ones. It is rather easy to get some kind of board slammed together tht works for your purposes, even in numbers.

But then comes the legwork: does your aparatus comply with all rules and regulations of your state? Your country? Will you be selling overseas? What are the rgulations there? What happens to dead batteries? Do you have to take old devices back (European Union)? How do you handle quality?

Once you figured all that out, then you go and calculate if it is still worrth building more than one device (sales, win, vs cost and time).

Now you will probably decide to build a single device, which you can easily plug together on a breadboard without even touching a soldering iron or manufacturing a PCB ;-)

Matthias

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Matthias Melcher

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