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4 ports


On 8/10/2016 1:33 PM, Rick Mann wrote:
>> On Aug 10, 2016, at 13:29 , 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 ?
> The BBG only has one USB port, as far as I can tell.
>
>

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