100 boards is not a lot of boards. Especially when you have distributors screaming for 50,000 boards to fill their large POs..
Gerald On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 3:38 PM, sixvolts <[email protected]> wrote: > There are plenty of things that get built and sold in those kinds of > numbers, like specialized instruments. > > > > On Wednesday, May 28, 2014 3:33:49 PM UTC-5, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> >> On Wed, 28 May 2014, sixvolts wrote: >> >> > I've been trying to talk to the people CircuitCo about building a >> > run of the beaglebone black boards for a commercial project, but I >> > can't seem to get anyone to respond to emails and the two people I >> > have phone numbers for are always busy. My understanding was that >> > proper etiquette was to not poach boards from the distributors if >> > you build a device around the beaglebone and have them produced for >> > you. I even spoke to someone at a CircuitCo booth at a conference >> > last year (DesignWest - where the beaglebone black was "launched") >> > and they indicated this was common already for the original >> > beagleboards/bones. >> > >> > I can't get anyone local interested in building them because of some >> > of the minimum order quantities on some of the parts (like the >> > emmc). >> > >> > Anyone at CircuitCo around? I have money and need around 100 boards >> > made. >> >> not many manufacturers would consider 100 units much of a "run". >> that's not the sort of number that's going to get you much attention. >> just an observation. >> >> rday >> >> -- >> >> ======================================================================== >> Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA >> http://crashcourse.ca >> >> Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday >> LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday >> ======================================================================== >> > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
