This is top down pricing. Multiple engineers clocked a considerable amount of time on this project. The number of OP-1s sold probably numbers only in the low te

This is top down pricing. Multiple engineers clocked a considerable amount of time on this project. The number of OP-1s sold probably numbers only in the low tens of thousands. It's priced appropriately considering how many they're going to sell and the value the device provides (and not just the raw material cost). We do a lot of computer programming using free or cheap (and billed monthly) tools on this site, so it's really easy to forget that professionals in other fields will pay a premium for something that works with minimal fiddling. Watching electrical engineering managers dump tens of thousands into single pieces of test equipment to not have to fuck around with patchwork solutions is enlightening, and I think software developers would do that a lot more if the FOSS route wasn't the only thing they knew.