Of course quantities available ( of the various BB types ) could be a very real deciding factor too.
On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 1:29 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 7:03 AM, Steven Johnson <[email protected]> > 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CALHSORrakjZRbTf7jQnykUWPzwQiBUhWRqz%3DU%2BRb%3DMzJsBuhag%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
