CircuitHub has launched a new service to do group buys to bring the costs of building an assembled PCB much cheaper to the individual. I'm sure several of you have seen Max Thrun's GamingCape design that was a bit hit in last year's TI Intern Design Contest.
I've uploaded Max's open hardware design to CircuitHub and they launched a new tool enabling us to go in together on a board build. This means we can use our combined purchasing power to lower the cost of buying the components and justifying the time it takes to setup machines to do the assembly. While Max's assembly skills are mesmerizing, they aren't going to put many boards in people's hands. The assembled board is $99. For a bit more information, visit: * http://beagleboard.org/blog/2014-11-12-CircuitHub-launches-group-buys-with-GamingCape/ Or, jump straight to the campaign at: * https://circuithub.tilt.com/beaglebone-gamingcape Note that this is a group purchase and not an off-the-shelf product. Max has done much of the hard work in designing and testing this board, but it isn't necessarily perfect. I'll be working with CircuitHub over the next few weeks to fix issues that Max has pointed out. Follow-up here or join the Disqus conversation on the page to help us hammer out the details, visit Max's page to review the design materials and join the fun. Design: * http://bear24rw.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/beaglebone-gamingcape.html -- 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.
