On Monday, December 29, 2025 at 1:21:18 AM UTC-5 Richard Scales wrote:
Personally, if I was not capable of making my own then $115 seems super cheap to me when compared to the time and effort it would take me to learn electronics design, PCB and software development skill I think there may be two perspectives on this... Certainly, for small scale creators, the cost of R&D plus fabrication is significant and the creator deserves to be fairly compensated for their efforts. In that light, $115 might not even hit that mark - and it's certainly fair to ask. On the other, I personally admit to becoming somewhat apathetic to this as a result of the sheer quantity of cheap imported goods that are sold at prices so low it begs the question of how they can even exist even factoring in poverty wage labor. The effects of this upon our society is a much bigger discussion than can be had here. I recently purchased a clock controller board at a price that was probably 1/2 of what I could buy the components - let alone fabricating a pcb board and assembling it. I'm not sure if it's possible to distinguish between products sold by small scale creators and the tsunami of similar kits sold at give-away prices unless that factor is advertised. When it has, I have made the effort to support those creators. I'm sure others here have done similarly, because I suspect our lot appreciates the efforts involved more than the average consumer. Somehow, we need to ween ourselves off this drug of cheap imports and bring more manufacturing back home... But again, I won't pretend to know what that answer is. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/19c8cc47-e99e-4cad-b45c-b1613a3b25c4n%40googlegroups.com.
