I want to purchase more CMM2 computers. Bought the ones I have from RICTECH LTD in New Zealand but cannot now. Can anybody tell me where I can purchase them?

Thanks!

EDIT: Moved to correct forum. (Grogster)
Edited 2026-01-30 15:01 by Grogster

Put this over in the related Forum. Topic.

Microcontroller and PC projects

I've moved the thread.

  CHARLIEG said  

Bought the ones I have from RICTECH LTD in New Zealand but cannot now.

Just in case anyone is wondering why, it's cos of the new American tariffs.
Well, not the tariffs themselves per se', but the extra mountain of paperwork that I have to now complete here at my end, if I want to send anything into USA.

If I were a private individual sending a parcel to USA, that's pretty simple, but as I am a company entity, the amount of new extra red-tape I have to complete - because I am a company exporting to the USA - is so annoying and frustrating, that I have basically given up on sending things to USA now.

It would be a different story, if I were exporting hundreds of thousands of units or something, but you still have to do all the hoop-jumping, weather it is 1 unit or a million units, so it becomes financially uneconomical to spend all the extra time and fight the bureaucracy around this, for fifty or sixty units per year.

I keep planning to talk to someone at New Zealand Post about this, but actually getting to talk to a HUMAN who knows what they are talking about with this, and not a equally frustrating dumb AI chat-bot zombie, is much harder then you think.

I doubt if you could get pre-built units into the US now. Any components sourced in China come, of course, from the very gates of Hell and mustn't be allowed onto good, God-fearing US dirt at all. Even the case is from those despicable people in Canada that won't give the US the water from the Great Lakes.
1000% tariffs on everything or I'll spit my dummy out of the pram again!

The best I can suggest is to try to source the components within the US and produce a US version with the PCB manufactured there. You may need a new PCB layout and the cost will be way more expensive, but that's what you get from having a convicted felon in charge.

  CHARLIEG said  

I want to purchase more CMM2 computers. ... Can anybody tell me where I can purchase them?

You suggest you want more than one. The best bet is to buy the pre-assembled boards direct from JLCPCB. I don't have the link to the gerbers and parts list, but the last CMM2 I got (in Canada) I got when vegiPete ordered 5 assembled boards and sold some. Grogster could probably tell you where to find the files.

That's an import from China though....

  Mixtel90 said  

That's an import from China though....

So far, I've been getting JLCPCB imports (including another batch of your Pear boards) with a bit of increase in cost and shipping, but no mention of tariffs. Recently ordered 5 boards, each with 2 snappable PCBs with JLC grouping for $11+ including shipping. Maybe the big tariff hit will come, but it hasn't yet.

Arrived moments ago. 10 RP2350-Zero boards for $11, with LCD, RTC, and SD (totally untested so far).


Edited 2026-01-31 05:34 by lizby

As I understand it, you're pretty much OK, if you are importing things as a private citizen.
Tariffs may still apply, but they aren't much, and places like JLC would charge that for you in advance - that's how I have to do it, if I sell anything into USA now.  If I was to do it.

The issue FOR ME, is that I am a company.  Companies have all this extra red-tape BS to go through, before they can export anything to USA - private citizens don't have that problem, generally speaking.

So, it's a company-level issue of red-tape BS.

  lizby said  

You suggest you want more than one. The best bet is to buy the pre-assembled boards direct from JLCPCB. I don't have the link to the gerbers and parts list, but the last CMM2 I got (in Canada) I got when vegiPete ordered 5 assembled boards and sold some. Grogster could probably tell you where to find the files.

Yes.

That is the way to do it if you are in America these daze.  JLC do have a minimum of 5 boards though for their assembled service, from what I remember.  You can't just order one.

@ CHARLIEG: If you're interested in that idea, flick me a PM and I can send you all the files so you can just get them made yourself.

  CHARLIEG said  

I want to purchase more CMM2 computers. Bought the ones I have from RICTECH LTD in New Zealand but cannot now. Can anybody tell me where I can purchase them?

Thanks!

EDIT: Moved to correct forum. (Grogster)

I've tried to get some boards made from  the manufacturer suggested by Geoff but they're out of stock on one of the capacitors for now and I'm contending with a question about a part mismatch between the board and BOM.

But if I manage to get these things ordered, I'll work with you to get one from my stack.

Grogster,

I'm new here so I would be guessing at the abbreviations you old-timers use.

Is PM e-mail or postal mail?

PM = Private Messenger on this forum.

When logged in, at the top of the page under HOME third item down is Private Messenger.
Click that then on the right side of the screen are Inbox, Outbox, and New Message.

Phil99,

Oops. I need to pay more attention. Thanks!