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10 Order the board

After this step your boards are ordered, paid, delivered and tested.

What you do

Ask for the release. Claude runs every check again, now on the files that go to the manufacturer. Only a run that ends with RELEASED may go out.

Parts you solder yourself

The manufacturer places what it stocks and you let it assemble. The rest you solder yourself: edakit order lists it in hand_assembly.md and puts it into an LCSC cart.

Parts in a drawer? List them in a table, your inventory. edakit order takes from it first and orders only the rest; hand_assembly.md says what to take out. edakit never changes the table. How to set it up: the handbook below, section "Parts on hand".

Here only the cell holder BT1 is soldered by hand, from the cart.

The manufacturer's form

Then /edakit:cart fills the manufacturer's form in your Chrome, with Claude in Chrome. Every field comes from your project:

$ edakit cart fields
PCB
…
  PCB Qty                   5                           [project] quantity quantity = 5
  PCB Thickness             1.6 mm                      edakit       thickness_mm = 1.6
…

Claude reads every field back, checks the quote against the estimate and stops at the cart.

What you are asked

Once: the country you ship to and the shipping method.

What you decide

  • Ordering and paying. Nothing in edakit orders or pays.
  • M-2: the parts' orientation in the manufacturer's preview, before you pay.
  • M-4: when the boards arrive, you test each one against the list the last run wrote.

For M-2 JLCPCB shows the board with its parts as they will be placed, here the walkthrough's:

JLCPCB's placement preview of the walkthrough's board: D1, R1 and SW1 placed, the cell holder's pads bare for soldering by hand

BT1 comes in the LCSC cart. You solder its two tabs yourself, then the board is done:

The walkthrough's finished board in EasyEDA's 3D view: the cell holder BT1 soldered, below it the button SW1, the LED D1 and the resistor R1

What you have

Boards in your hand, and a record of the order in hardware/orders/. Once paid, edakit cart actual puts the real cost beside the estimate.

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