Re: build a hack box of choice?

Hi

to achieve US$20 you'll need 100k batches. US$50 in 10k batches
is more realistic, as US$100 in 1k batches

pcengines is US$98 for 480 qtys, without case/power supply!

I also think there is market, big guys didn't figured it out, yet!

Cheers
!3runo

John T wrote:
> Seems if someone really wanted to accomplish this, the idea would be choose
> a reference design, design the firmware, contract some company in tiawan to
> mass produce the units, with the specific firmware.... in volume, cost would
> probably be $20 per unit or less... then sell them as specifically openAP
> routers complete with source code, make them geek friendly.  I'm sure there
> would be a pretty good market for them... enough so that you could probably
> find a source of venture capital to get it off the ground.