good responses.  The reason I ask is I worked on a board design, and it sent out to a few prospective users...granted it was not a dev board like this, but more of a remote sensor application and could be geared toward robotics or such.  I was told that even at $59, programmed with all the code, it was too expensive.  Who knows...the project died after that from lack of interest from the client.

Makes me curious how many Olin is selling, but I doubt he would share that information (dont blame him for not wanting to)


--- On Thu, 10/30/08, Herbert Graf <mailinglist4@farcite.net> wrote:

> From: Herbert Graf <mailinglist4@farcite.net>
> Subject: Re: [AD] Announcing ReadyBoard-02 PIC project board
> To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <piclist@mit.edu>
> Date: Thursday, October 30, 2008, 9:56 AM
> On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 12:22 -0400, Martin wrote:
> > alan smith wrote:
> > > So..back on topic...
> > > 
> > > Wondering from the group prespective, is $75 too
> expensive for this?
> > > 
> > > yes I know what it costs to do a board,
> etc....but I suppose this is not really targeted at hobby
> use?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >       
> > 
> > No it's not expensive - the parts may cost a few
> dollars but assembly
> > was at least twice the cost of the parts (x10 if he
> had it made in the
> > USA). Olin's not doing it for charity either.
> 
> The cost is what I would expect it to be.
> 
> I don't think Olin is targeting the "poor
> student" market. I believe a
> product like this is more targeted at those who just need
> to get a quick
> prototype built to demonstrate whether something will work
> or not. For
> that, $75 is peanuts due to the time savings alone.
> 
> A product like this would probably also be good for
> building a very
> small run of "customer demos", enough to get the
> customer going, while
> the final real PCB design is made.
> 
> TTYL
> 
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