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> Hamilton wrote:
>
> >          My first post was not to clear.  'I' don't want to start a
business!
> > (yet). I just want to know a price For DEVOLOPMENT of a device
(Schematics,
> > prototype, and board layout).
>
> This is a much easier question, its called your consulting rate. In the
San
>  Francisco
> bay area its between $50 and $175 per hour and I'd guess that single PIC
circuit
> would be expected to take somewhere between 4 and 16 hours to develop,
> depending on the complexity of the peripheral circuitry.

4-16 hours??? to develop a circuit that actually does something?  don't you
mean
more like 4 months?