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I'm literally surrounded by SCSI devices at the moment, and this project is a godsend - but it doesn't ship outside the US, alas. Pity.

Anyone else in Europe wanna pitch in and make a batch of these for use on the continent?

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Maybe the SCSI2SD would be a better option then? This one ships from the UK: https://amigakit.amiga.store/product_info.php?products_id=13...

Edit: Cheaper, older model: http://amigakit.amiga.store/product_info.php?products_id=126...

Considering what's on those boards, I've always felt they were too expensive.

You're not paying for the raw components... given the incredibly niche audience for this product and the development effort involved it's really cheap (and it looks like they are even hand soldered).

Can confirm. Small-scale electronics projects (hundreds or thousands of sold boards) are really expensive compared to mass-manufactured stuff sold in the millions. Even if you just charge for the raw component prices, it will still be much more expensive than something that sells at a much higher volume.

Source: Personal experience from making and selling a few hundred units of self-made retrofit PCBs.

I'd happily pay less for an unpopulated board and do it my self, but I don't have the eyesight or steady hand for SMD soldering - a lot of these new 'retro' hardware releases are designed in such a way that a hobbyist has no hope building themselves, and nor can they afford the pre-builts. :(

Off-topic: Another couple of downvotes for simply expressing an opinion... HN's echo-chamber tendencies are in full-force these days (again... my opinion).

From my experience (see sister comment), I don't think the board will be much cheaper that way. Even at this low volume they will probably not hand-solder anything but rather rely on a company offering pick&place services, and that will not add much to the costs. If you want to try it yourself and prove that it can be done much more cheaply, you can maybe try building one yourself: https://github.com/fhgwright/SCSI2SD/tree/master/hardware

Actually I might! I've starred the repo for later reference.

I already have SCSI2SD in my toolbox - but what I really want is the ability to write custom SCSI code for some of these devices, which is what the RaSCSI would provide, in a pretty nice environment ..

According to the linked Tindie page ships outside the US and explicitly says to contact the seller to add countries that are missing?

Yeah, Tindie just doesn't ship to my country, alas. I'll try to find a US address to use, because I'm not going to wait until Tindie catches up with Europe.

Tindie is a marketplace, they don't ship anything (and using them from Europe is not a problem). The specific seller of the product discussed here does ship to Europe too, contrary to your claim, and explicitly asks you to contact them if your country is not set up yet (because they do need to research shipping cost and set it up). What exactly is the problem with that?

I don't see where the seller states they'll ship to me here in Europe, but thanks for pointing out to me that I can contact them - I will do so, and see if it works out.

The very top of the store page it says to contact if your country is not listed. The shipping page lists 50 or so countries - It seems hard to miss!

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26250762

I do ship outside the US. Tindie doesn't have an option to allow all countries, so I need to add them as requested. Hit me up if your country isn't on the list.

Please put Austria on the list! :)

https://gimons.booth.pm/ ships them worldwide from Japan.

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