Jon Chandler wrote:
> A TAP board can be assembled for less $10 if you have a quantity of
> PCBs
> made (I had 30 boards made for $90).  I can use a $10 board and not be
> concerned about getting it back.  Not the case for a $90 dev board.
> Some projects justify the cost and can make good use of the
> breadboard area.

Everything is a tradeoff.  It also often too easy to only count the direct
cash outlay costs and forget the other costs.  $63 for a dev board is cheap
when you count the technician time not spent building up the board,
debugging the power supply, adding a RS-232 interface, and adding LEDs for
debugging.  For some hobbyists that value their time near zero the tradeoff
is different, but in any real setting $63 is throw away level.


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