The AD3, as far as i know was the first Digilent device to come with hidden screws under a sticker, and dave from the eevblog has now showed the upcoming ADP2230 and took it apart, which was apparently much harder to do than on previous digilent instruments and now also involved removing a thick sticker which likely will never fit properly again.
The instruments and other devices you make are bought and used by people who are knowledgable about or learning electronics. The kind of people most likely to want to either see inside what they buy, and/or the most likely to want to repair their own devices should they fail.
Hiding screws behind stickers is just ridiculous in this kind of product for this demographic.
The forum has seen lots of people opening their analog discovery 2s for repair, only resorting to claiming warranty if they can't fix it, but it seems always after they've tried lots of different things to fix it.
Hiding screws behind stickers, hard to peel and hard to stick back, is just a move in the wrong direction. The screws in the AD2 being easily accessible don't make it ugly, and if they did, I think many people would care considerably less about the very minor impact this has on looks compared to the major benefit easily accessible screws provides to the serviceability of the device.
Many of your devices are used daily to aid in repair efforts of other devices. Please don't make your own devices less repairable. Hiding screws tends to be the first step in making things less repairable and it would suck majorly to see Digilent going the apple route.
I actually see visible screws as a plus. It's like an invitation, "go ahead, take a look inside, you're welcome to explore the innards of your device, you can more easily fix it, enjoy!" And when other providers of test and measurement instruments of the likes of Rohde & Schwarz, Keysight, Tektronix, and more manage to produce instruments that are aesthetically pleasing and still have the screws easily accessible, this tells me it is unlikely the goal of hiding screws behind stickers (which by the way will make the device look much worse after you peel it off and try to stick it back on) is an aesthetic one but likely that you are possibly starting to look into making your products not easily serviceable, and this sucks.
Hopefully you reconsider your choice of hiding screws and future products make them easily accessible again.
I love the Digilent products I own, and I keep recommending them to people based on my experience with them, but this moving in the wrong direction is making me wonder how much less serviceable your products will continue to become, again, hiding screws is always the first step in making things worse!
Please consider going back to easily accessible screws in your future products.
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The AD3, as far as i know was the first Digilent device to come with hidden screws under a sticker, and dave from the eevblog has now showed the upcoming ADP2230 and took it apart, which was apparently much harder to do than on previous digilent instruments and now also involved removing a thick sticker which likely will never fit properly again.
The instruments and other devices you make are bought and used by people who are knowledgable about or learning electronics. The kind of people most likely to want to either see inside what they buy, and/or the most likely to want to repair their own devices should they fail.
Hiding screws behind stickers is just ridiculous in this kind of product for this demographic.
The forum has seen lots of people opening their analog discovery 2s for repair, only resorting to claiming warranty if they can't fix it, but it seems always after they've tried lots of different things to fix it.
Hiding screws behind stickers, hard to peel and hard to stick back, is just a move in the wrong direction. The screws in the AD2 being easily accessible don't make it ugly, and if they did, I think many people would care considerably less about the very minor impact this has on looks compared to the major benefit easily accessible screws provides to the serviceability of the device.
Many of your devices are used daily to aid in repair efforts of other devices. Please don't make your own devices less repairable. Hiding screws tends to be the first step in making things less repairable and it would suck majorly to see Digilent going the apple route.
I actually see visible screws as a plus. It's like an invitation, "go ahead, take a look inside, you're welcome to explore the innards of your device, you can more easily fix it, enjoy!" And when other providers of test and measurement instruments of the likes of Rohde & Schwarz, Keysight, Tektronix, and more manage to produce instruments that are aesthetically pleasing and still have the screws easily accessible, this tells me it is unlikely the goal of hiding screws behind stickers (which by the way will make the device look much worse after you peel it off and try to stick it back on) is an aesthetic one but likely that you are possibly starting to look into making your products not easily serviceable, and this sucks.
Hopefully you reconsider your choice of hiding screws and future products make them easily accessible again.
I love the Digilent products I own, and I keep recommending them to people based on my experience with them, but this moving in the wrong direction is making me wonder how much less serviceable your products will continue to become, again, hiding screws is always the first step in making things worse!
Please consider going back to easily accessible screws in your future products.
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