On Tuesday, August 9, 2016 at 11:03:50 PM UTC+7, William Hermans wrote: > Looks good, but whats the BOM cost ? > >
Thanks, I am pleased with it so far. As for BOM cost... well I hand built the first 6 boards myself and at that qty BOM cost is prohibitive. Also the board is small, I know there will be an expectation its cheap. The problem is that expectation is based on people being able to buy 4 port hubs retail for $5. Buy a million of my hub and I can probably build them for that too. So BOM cost is an issue I'm working on. As is production cost. All of which are difficult to solve at low volumes. That said I wouldn't announce this board if I didn't have a plan to build it economically. So bear with me and after I work out all the details I hope to announce a shipped price that is acceptable to most. A secondary consideration is being able to produce it at the same/similar price for the forseable future. Thats also an issue for me. Too many projects are single runs because they can not get enough volume for a 3rd or 4th batch. If my plan works out that shouldn't be a problem for this board. -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/2583a952-817b-4f1f-885d-32c936ba6f5b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
