We'll be happy to stock it as alternate to existing proven USB Hub solution: https://specialcomp.com/beaglebone/#21300
On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 1:37 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ms >> gid/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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CALHSORrCdGHUgYpJVAe%3D1YOLsANgc1efBZAY30j-qsOai5vtTQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > 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/CAMPEx0e%2BtPb0YTyGLZF8RY5jVzESCMgdiFbAxrif_EPyKbkEng%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
