On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 7:03 AM, Steven Johnson <strnty...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. > Actually, I suppose BOM is not so important to me, with the way that I'm thinking. But where i was going with this is that the BBG's come with 4 USB ports already, so for one off designs it might behoove a hobbyist to just buy a BBG. However, for a production system that needs to meet more than a few 10's of boards, I can see where this could ideal. But then the question would be does one really need HDMI, and whatever else the beagleobne black offers over the green ? So I suppose the question should be: What does this offer that one can not achieve by using a BBG ? -- 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 beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CALHSORqxqrSDBu59ep9WN-_Tv02qXts0TChcwAASpq17jgBbqQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
