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Related: David Mellis (one of the Arduino founders) has an Arduino-based phone project as part of his Phd research: http://web.media.mit.edu/~mellis/cellphone/i
by GuiA 12y ago
Related: David Mellis (one of the Arduino founders) has an Arduino-based phone project as part of his Phd research: http://web.media.mit.edu/~mellis/cellphone/index.html http://web.media.mit.edu/~mellis/cellphone/index.html
- userbinator 12y agoabout $200 total Shows just how extreme the economies of scale and integration can be - putting together a working system based on loosely-coupled off-the-shelf parts (it looks like his effort was mostly only expended on the "gluing" of these parts together) can cost more than 20x that of the tightly-integrated, mass-produced product with equivalent functionality. The speaker, battery, and display for the Arduinophone individually cost more than one of these entire cheap phones. ...and $200 is more than enough to buy an unlocked, contract-free, Android smartphone with several times the processing power and functionality.