Yeah I guess I was remembering the BBGW and thinking of the BBG. On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 1:35 PM, evilwulfie <[email protected]> wrote:
> https://beagleboard.org/green-wireless > > 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. > > > > > > -- > 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/35b7a50e-4b95-ac9e-8c74-5c5392162597%40gmail.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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/CALHSORrCdGHUgYpJVAe%3D1YOLsANgc1efBZAY30j-qsOai5vtTQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
