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I can understand why can be useful for newbies in DIY electronics, but I don't understand why need 3000$ for something can be draw in Kicad and put free on Inte
by Zardoz84 13y ago
I can understand why can be useful for newbies in DIY electronics, but I don't understand why need 3000$ for something can be draw in Kicad and put free on Internet.
- sliverstorm 13y agoBecause he's not offering a schematic, he is offering a finished board. Have you ever had a PCB fabbed? Huge up-front cost, and the price scales down very quickly with number of units. A $3,000 seed investment lets him produce finished boards at $25/apiece; a $1,000 seed investment (and thus 1/3 of the PCBs) would probably double the cost of the PCB per unit.
- danellis 13y agoA PCB of that size would be about $30 at OSH Park. Hardly a "huge upfront cost".
- sliverstorm 13y agoSure, but OSH Park is hardly the best way to offer a production board. Yes, he could make one for himself, but is that the goal?
- mindslight 13y agoBecause Kickstarter. It even has a resolution of 0.1pF! A pair of these would be fantastic for fine-tuning crystal loading caps.
- linker3000 13y agoThere is so much stray capacitance around that whole design, let alone the inductance of the leads etc. It would be totally useless for accuracy at the pF level (maybe 'that's the joke'?)