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> Traditionally, dev kits are sold at roughly the cost to produce them, perhaps with a small markup. Maybe, but pre-arduino dev kits were often hundreds of dol
by AlexandrB 3y ago
> Traditionally, dev kits are sold at roughly the cost to produce them, perhaps with a small markup.
Maybe, but pre-arduino dev kits were often hundreds of dollars because doing low-volume PCB manufacturing was expensive. Now that it's cheap, Arduino is kind of obsolete.
- pclmulqdq 3y agoYeah. After Arduino proved that there was a market for low-feature dev kits, TI made their MSP430-based Arduino competitor that they sold for $4.30 and manufactured in volume, just like the Arduino.
- Tildey 3y agoEspressif has also capitalised on this trend with the ESP32, having cheap (~$10) official dev boards available at or before the launch of a new Esp32 model