So, I got the Gamma boards, panelized, 22 front&keypad board panels and 24 back&18650 board panels, all from DirtyPCBs:

I also got lots of passives and actives, headphone jacks, all that, it seems I have all the parts necessary for ZeroPhone assembly. BTW, if you want to learn to panelize the boards like this, I got a tutorial for you =)

I also took over a separate room in our hackerspace:

This room has the Pick&Place machine, which is the main reason I'm now working there - I'm trying to make this Pick&Place assemble the boards I want it to assemble. So far, my efforts have been extensive but not very successful - I have both software and hardware problems, and I might as well miss the "ship ZeroPhones to USA this Thursday" deadline if I don't solve them tomorrow =(

For where the normal pick&place won't be able to help, I got some help from my wife:

So far, she's assembled this beautiful stack of keypad boards:

But, unfortunately, we still won't be able to assemble everything without a Pick&Place. Oh well, will be continuing my Pick&Place journey tomorrow. Anybody has some LitePlacer setup experience?

There are a lot of things to be moved to Wiki, they deserve their own separate worklog and I will be writing that the next week. The most important thing - I'll be making a rolling "project state" page on ZeroPhone Wiki, as well as post the project schedule and project plans there.

Of course, there are problems at this stage:

• Display breakout problem - worst case, I'll be forced to design my own display breakout boards and wait for them from China =(
• Money problem - I'm out of money at this point, I'll have to find about 150EUR for shipping ZeroPhones to USA by DHL (because normal postal services just aren't acceptable for that).
• Packaging problem - I need to think of some kind of packaging for ZeroPhones - some kind of tailored cardboard box for each one, ideally, just like phones are typically sold. I do have a laser cutter, and I could buy some cardboard sheets, but I don't have any box design, and I don't have any experience designing boxes either.
• I need to assemble one Gamma ZeroPhone now, then I need to make a video about ZeroPhone assembly, and I need some instructions about it on Wiki.

So, next week (starting tomorrow), I'll be solving these problems, while setting up a PnP, assembling ZeroPhones and working with contributions - sounds like lots of fun! =D