On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Paul Boddie paul@boddie.org.uk wrote:
In fact, quite a bit has happened, but there have obviously been setbacks, mostly to do with the choices made in getting hardware into people's hands. Had different choices been made in, say, 2013 then a broader audience might have had something to use by now, but it seems that a strategy was followed that might have seemed the best and fastest route to market at the time, but which in hindsight proved to be a dead end.
and that right there is valuable. just like edison [finding 1,999 ways *not* to make a lightbulb] - success happens mostly through committment and persistence to try different things...
*re-evaluating all the time* exactly as you say, simon.
The one thing that I wanted to emphasise in that article is that hardware has been produced, which means that the hard part should be out of the way. But I guess only Luke knows the status of the crowd-funding campaign and the "last mile".
yep. costings. it's the details. laser-cut steel masks: $1,000. having to do 5 prototypes with the contract manufacturers: $2,500. MOQs for some of the components: $3,000.
all of this has to be taken into account, based on a MOQ (which i'm still likely to set at 250), *all* those NREs have to be taken into account and paid for out of the up-front committed money from people.
bearing in mind that the unit cost of assembly for the EOMA68-A20 board is to be around $60 (in qty 250) and the micro-engineering board around $30 (in qty 250), those NREs above (total $6500) divided by 250 comes to an extra $26, the unit *COST* comes to an amazingly high $USD 116.
.... nothing like the $35 for a wandboard or whatever it's called, is it?
but that's just how it is.
l.