>>> Roberto is assembling a team for the campaign for board layouts.
>>> [...] a board layout for a laptop seems likely.

>> Won't this phase #2 be carried out by ACube as well
>> (after collection of further 11950 EUR)?

> As far as I know that is the plan.

What is Roberto's team supposed to do then?

> to me that is success in itself.

...or will be after completion of phase #2 :-)

> Phase #3 to #5 are necessary to debug everything.

Which means that after completion of phase #2, there could still be bugs in the schematics and/or board layout, right?

> Thomas is actually getting this done fairly cheaply.

Thomas? Is he ACube's design engineer?