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I'm guessing that the connector and control box are pretty much hand wired with some printed boards. The hardware cost should be more like $50 if factory made.
by pharke 6y ago
I'm guessing that the connector and control box are pretty much hand wired with some printed boards. The hardware cost should be more like $50 if factory made. It's great to see a prototype like this working but we're technologically capable of so much more.
- mhh__ 6y agoThat depends on how much signal processing and interfacing needs to be done. If it needs some serious heavy lifting then $50 might not even cover the FPGA.
- pharke 6y agoWhy use an FPGA in mass production when an IC would be faster and cheaper?
- mhh__ 6y agoHow many of these would you sell? I would imagine an ASIC manufacturer isn't going to pick up the phone for less than 10k units. You can actually buy an FPGA today, too. The added time spent getting expensive engineers and doctors to integrate and test the ASIC probably wouldn't be worth it in low volumes. On top of that if you have complicated signal aquisition circuitry the ADCs alone might be another $100.
- pharke 6y agoIf you could perfect a system that restores motion and/or feeling to paralyzed parts of the human body you could sell millions of units[0] [0] https://www.christopherreeve.org/living-with-paralysis/stats-about-paralysis https://www.christopherreeve.org/living-with-paralysis/stats...