Michael Meeuwisse wrote:
On 29 Feb 2008, at 23:51, PcgScrapAddy wrote:
I am interested in getting my hands on one, what's my cost for the
little gem?
At the moment the price is €150 ex shipping, mostly because startup
costs are high and with the little profit that's in there I can start
setting up a company, etc. I'm afraid this sounds a little high for
people used to US dollars, but I can't afford the USD ;)
I could maybe make this as a small volume product... I found a machine vision
assembly company
that can put together a 7 x 15 cm board for $4 if you get a batch of 50. And
I'm
working with a Chinese board maker on single copper plus conductive ink 98% SMT
boards with few holes that
are cheap and good. For high speed paths, a separately made ground plane
adhered to bottom of the board
and solder connected by some through holes or wrap around edge clips might be
needed, but the cost of
a PCI card with gold plated edged connector could be BOM + $5 in volume of 50,
higher $$'s if lower numbers,
lower $$'s if higher numbers.
Can your board be done with < 300 SMT pads, 105 cm sq, some paths used for
jumping over others
with 1 or 2 Ohms resistance, the rest heavy etched copper? If so, maybe I can
be your supplier
now that the Euro is so expensive, (USD is so cheap).
I'm not offering to fab for you, but to make and sell an open-hardware product
to early adopters
on this list, including you...as a way of boot-strapping up my operations. For
a BOM of
fifteen different parts costing $22 total, + $5 for fabbed, untested boards,
and a pre-order of
twenty boards, I could probably do the layout and minor design tweaks needed to
fab my way
and sell tested for $87 US + ship if paid by VISA to a google checkout button.
That would depend on some unknowns like:
how easy is it to run enough free open code on some
2001-vintage-cheap-extra-computers
with PCI slots to test the hardware assembly,
connectors,
how fast after the prepaid order everyone wants boards...
I am thinking 6 weeks could be possible, even with the
bare boards coming from China.
John Griessen
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