--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 8:16 PM, Xavi Drudis Ferran <[email protected]> wrote: > El Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 05:59:04PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton deia: >> On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 7:18 AM, Xavi Drudis Ferran <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > El Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 05:34:06AM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton >> > deia: >> > >> >> * i'm thinking of putting the "pass through" card on the campaign, >> >> approximate pledge amount $40 (because in low-volume expected >> >> it'll be about a $20 BOM), that would turn the laptop housing into >> >> a battery-operated screen, keyboard and trackpad for any smartphone, >> >> USB-HDMI-dongle-PC, laptop or desktop PC. thoughts appreciated >> >> on that one. >> >> >> > >> > Go for it ! >> > >> > I'm not aware of the cost you would have to bring it in before the >> > campaign deadline (is it finished, tested, ready?), but if you can do >> > it, don't doubt. >> >> it's been planned for a long time, i can estimate the BOM (not a lot >> - about $6 of components) it's the PCB manufacturing that will be a >> bit more than usual if the quantities are small, even if it's a >> single-sided 2-layer PCB >> > > No idea about those calculations. You said around $40 for the backer > to get one, that sounds about right. Psicologically it's still more > than half the price of a CPU card, and it doesn't carry SOC, RAM or > storage. That may be countered with just publishing the BOMs of both > the passthrough card and CPU card (if they aren't already). But even > without that, $40 it's not so off the mark. > > If it can be 30$ or 32$ you may sell more. ... yeahhh will think about it. > If it comes to $50 it > starts to look too close to $65 (CPU card) or to $55 (desktop, but I'm > not sure this is a valid comparison) and people might think twice. I > can't calculate the point where the sales volume outweights the lower > profit per unit. No idea. you could put the pass-through card into the micro-desktop as well, that's the hilarious bit. > I'd even say ask for more PCBs than pledges to anticipate future sells, > but it's not my own money I'm playing with so I'll refrain. I'm sligthly > surprised by the small amount of laptop orders so far, and I haven't thought > much, but I don't see the passthrough card+ desktop as even remotely as > interesting as pasthrough card + laptop. yeah exactly - look at the http://nexdock.com/cool-uses/ it becomes clear, oh, also, it looks like someone there found a WIFI HDMI adapter of some kind :) > Other components are unique (like female connectors instead of male or > something) or can they be grouped with components for other rewards > and so enjoy the price of larger orders ? I don't have an idea of > MOQs, price/quantity intervals or anything. nono, i can use the same micro-hdmi and micro-usb-otg as on the EOMA68-A20. getting hold of the cables for tablets and smartphones, have to look those up, can do it in another update, you need a micro-hdmi-to-micro-hdmi and micro-otg-to-micro-otg which i've never heard of so might have to be done as a multi-set of converters... ehh will work it out > Another factor is time. If it is ready to offer before the deadline it > makes sense. If prototypes, testing and so on takes longer, then > maybe it'll have to wait to future campaigns... it's simple enough to do (about 20 components) but i feel comfortable explaining to people what's going on. >> >> then again you've probably seen the USB-HDMI dongle PC connected to >> motorola atrix lapdock "version 1" instructables.... you can't use the >> version 2 as they DRM-locked it. >> > > I haven't seen that. I don't really imagine what it is right now. Worth > looking it up ? I lose interest when reading DRM... the nexdock is more interesting > Whatever it is it can't possibly hold the promise to host a EOMA68 cpu > card with someone's favorite SOC in the future, can it? :) placeholder page here http://rhombus-tech.net/community_ideas/passthrough_card/ chris (havel) would you like to have a go at making something using that program you use? let's put it on the community_ideas page l. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
