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I'm a bit confused with why the prices in the Web store are so high. Is it the fact that it is open source driving the price up? Or is the Slovak manufacturer j

I'm a bit confused with why the prices in the Web store are so high. Is it the fact that it is open source driving the price up? Or is the Slovak manufacturer just faced with high manufacturing costs? Would getting seed studio's fusion pcb service to manufacture drive the prices down? Or Would getting China to manufacture this be considered immoral some how?

baroffoos 8y ago
The prices seem fairly in line with what you normally see for fully open source boards. They cost a lot because of the low volume and huge amounts of work that have to be done. For a regular board you just slap down whatever parts you want but if it has to be open source you need to put in a lot more work looking for parts with free firmware and spec sheets as well as writing a lot of firmware yourself. The GnuBee is an open source nas that is actually cheaper than everything else on the market. I suspect because its a fairly simple device and the proprietary versions are super marked up as well as the creator being located inside Shenzhen