Hi
> On Feb 21, 2017, at 11:45 PM, Mark Sims <hol...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > I doubt that it is something TAPR would do. Building complete systems gets > into all sorts of issues (mainly regulatory). There’s also the issue of cost. If you need to sell maybe 200 gizmos at $100 to make things work, The same process is a bit more exciting when it’s 200 gizmos at $800. In the first case, somebody needs to front the money for a $20,000 project. In the second case they may need to take out a second mortgage. If 20 of the $100 devices don’t sell, they have $2K in inventory to write off. In the second case they have $16K. As you can quickly see on their web site, some of their projects hang around in inventory for a *long* time. Yes, that’s all in sales dollars to make the math easy. Somehow I doubt that TAPR is a high margin / high profit organization :) Bob > But it is easy enough to build. They sell a nice case that the RPI3 and > touchscreen mounts in. The PI+touchscreen+case sells for around $110. The > TICC(s) connect to it via USB. > > There are also some Win10 tablets with 1024x600 touch screens that sell for > around $60 (apparently Microsoft doesn't charge manufacturers for Win10 on > tablets with small/low res screens). > > I am thinking about laying out a front-end board for the TICC. It would > have some switchable (relay?) 50 ohm input terminators, switchable PICDIV > dividers for PPS/1MHz/5MHz/10MHz/15MHz (or 2.5 MHz) inputs, footprints for > a decent reference oscillator (MV89/8663/DIP/etc), and a 12V to 5V (3A?) > power converter for the TICC and PI... most of the better surplus > oscillators run off of 12V. Also maybe add a data multiplexer for combining > the outputs of two TICC boards into one data stream (but Heather could do > that in software). John has some ideas for a similar board. > > ----------------- > >> Wow! If you can persuade John and TAPR to produce that, I would be there > with my chequebook before the ink had dried on the web-page! :-) > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
