[Open-graphics] Re: inexpensive project vga card batch?

[PcgScrapAddy]

 >> sell tested for $87 US + ship

For that price and continental US shipping I'll take two.

John Griessen wrote:
> Michael Meeuwisse wrote:
>> On 29 Feb 2008, at 23:51, PcgScrapAddy wrote:
>>
>>> I am interested in getting my hands on one, what's my cost for the 
>>> little gem?
>>
>> At the moment the price is €150 ex shipping, mostly because startup 
>> costs are high and with the little profit that's in there I can start 
>> setting up a company, etc. I'm afraid this sounds a little high for 
>> people used to US dollars, but I can't afford the USD ;)
> 
> I could maybe make this as a small volume product...  I found a machine 
> vision assembly company
> that can put together a 7 x 15 cm board for $4 if you get a batch of 
> 50.  And I'm
> working with a Chinese board maker on single copper plus conductive ink 
> 98% SMT boards with few holes that
> are cheap and good.  For high speed paths, a separately made ground 
> plane adhered to bottom of the board
> and solder connected by some through holes or wrap around edge clips 
> might be needed, but the cost of
> a PCI card with gold plated edged connector could be BOM + $5 in volume 
> of 50, higher $$'s if lower numbers,
> lower  $$'s if higher numbers.
> 
> Can your board be done with < 300 SMT pads, 105 cm sq, some paths used 
> for jumping over others
> with 1 or 2 Ohms resistance, the rest heavy etched copper?  If so, maybe 
> I can be your supplier
> now that the Euro is so expensive, (USD is so cheap).
> 
> I'm not offering to fab for you, but to make and sell an open-hardware 
> product to early adopters
> on this list, including you...as a way of boot-strapping up my 
> operations.  For a BOM of
> fifteen different parts costing $22 total, + $5 for fabbed, untested 
> boards, and a pre-order of
> twenty boards, I could probably do the layout and minor design tweaks 
> needed to fab my way
> and sell tested for $87 US + ship if paid by VISA to a google checkout 
> button.
> 
> That would depend on some unknowns like:
> how easy is it to run enough free open code on some 
> 2001-vintage-cheap-extra-computers
>         with PCI slots to test the hardware assembly,
> connectors,
> how fast after the  prepaid order everyone wants boards...
> 
> I am thinking 6 weeks could be possible, even with the
> bare boards coming from China.
> 
> John Griessen
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