3 ms·
How the fees seem to work: Design fee: $949 - One off your Eagle files: $150 - One off Per board fee - priced per component including installation It seems
by dkarp 6y ago
How the fees seem to work:
Design fee: $949 - One off
your Eagle files: $150 - One off
Per board fee - priced per component including installation
It seems like you are paying someone to manually design the board and link any components to the controller. I guess it's limited to only simple designs where each component just connects to the controller. I like how the software keeps track of pins and power available
- bigiain 6y ago> Per board fee - priced per component including installation "over-priced per component" might be a better description. As someone else mentioned, they charge you $20 for an ESP32 "block". That's a 33% markup on their ESP32 MicroMod board, and about 1000% markup on retail pricing for the ESP32 bare component. It's compatible price wise if your spiders nest hairball has a whole ESP32Thing in it, but there's almost certainly gonna be doubling up on connectors, pushbuttons, USB ports/controllers, voltage regulators, etc - that it'd be nice if the ALC magic at least kept the component price as low as the least expensive version they'll sell you as a module/breakout board.