Production planning

11 April update

Planned work:

• Monday 14 April: produce Spectranet – day 1/2
• Tuesday 15 April: produce Spectranet – day 2/2
• Wednesday 16 April: continue refurbishing ZX Spectrum mainboards
• Thursday 17 April: pick and finish original ZX Spectrum cases

22 March update

I know I’ve been very silent over the last 2 months.
That’s because of some tough things in life that causes a lot of distraction.

I focused on production work to try to catch up, but because of that, a lot of email (hundreds) and social messages haven’t been processed.
I’m very sorry of that.

Today I created some software to easily create a report of all the open work.
The first export of that is shown underneath.
I did already process a huge amount of orders, but as you can see a lof of new ones are coming in each day (have 20+ still in the mailbox to add to this list).

So right now I am working on products for the oldest orders.
I will keep this page updated about once a week now.

27 January update

23 January update

So I’m working on PRO ONE interfaces, and Harlequin 128K DIY kits.

16 January update

Underneath you will find roughly the planned work, and what needs to be done after that, at the date of writing (it changes over time with new orders, and what’s done).

Some of this may already be on the shelves, need to check if we have enough.
And what is not listed, is already picked for orders or on the shelf to be picked.

The list is somewhat prioritised – we do products in batches.
Roughly estimated this should all be done in 2-3 weeks now, but most will be done in 1 and a half week I expect.

I will do a lot more than what’s listed here, but this is the intention / what needs to be done at least:

Week of 13 January (current week)

• Processing email and social messages – this takes days, but I try to do a handful of it every day
• Shipping out about 40 packages on Friday or Saturday
• Finishing Q4 ’24 bookkeeping

Week of 20 January

• Finishing Harlequin 128 DIY kits – mainly need to update the manual, then ship out about 25 orders for these
• Producing a huge batch of DivMMC interfaces, which will take about 3 days

Then:

• Spectranet
• DivMMC PRO MINI
• DivMMC PRO MINI lite
• ZX-AY
• Speccy Breadboard
• Harlequin 128 assembled
• Harlequin 48 assembled
• Opus Discovery upgrade kits
• PlusDlite
• Dual Floppy Drive sets
• Joystick tester / adapter
• ZX Plus cases
• Rainbow LED case
• ZX rubber-key cases
• ZX mainboards
• Complete ZX 48K
• Complete ZX Plus

Production work

Some snapshots of the ongoing work..

Picking ZX-HD orders:

Finishing ZX Diag Carts:

About ByteDelight

ByteDelight is run by me, Ben Versteeg, with the occasional help of some family members, in their spare time.
I started ByteDelight in 2014 and been doing that fulltime since 2018.

We use a semi-automated production line with pick-and-place machine and reflow oven, but still do a lot of manufacturing by hand, which we love.

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