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I've been following this person on Twitter for a while now and actually this was designed a couple of years ago. I thought they'd decided that the BOM was goin

I've been following this person on Twitter for a while now and actually this was designed a couple of years ago. I thought they'd decided that the BOM was going to be well over $300 and shelved it because they wouldn't be able to make a successful commercial product. They'd settled on one just for themselves. I guess that's changed? Anyway, as much as I'm excited about the possibility of it, I don't think it will see the light of day.

wanderingjew 6y ago
Creator here. Yes, the original idea ended up being a ~$200 BOM or something like that. I dug in and decided to do _everything_ on a $2 microcontroller. Unfortunately for me, that means spending a lot of time getting the code to work, and getting the code to work fast. And writing a TFT driver from a datasheet that is incomplete. That's why it's been taking so long. That, and quarantine miasma and depression or something like that. Now the BOM is reasonable, and this is something I can sell for ~$100. With some careful component selection, the major items on the BOM will also be in production for the next decade, so there's time for me to amortize how much time I've spent on this. Give it a few months. I'm hoping to get some prototype units in the hands of testers by April.