Gene, It is 2019. The money is made today with the service sector. Yes I could sell widgets and make $50 for each one sold. But it is better to give away the widgets and then charge for widget services including installation, training and consulting. The service pays far more than does manufacturing, especially if the product is just a $3 chip on a PCB. Or worse a $2, PCB from eBay that has been flashed with software.
Price controls demand. so the demand for free open source widgets much higher then if I charged a fair price. Consulting and install service pays better if my widgets have dominant market share. So it pays to give them away a lot more then if I charged. Designers and engineers have learned to do design and engineering, not manufacturing, leave that to China. Seems wrong but there is many times more tpo be made by giving things out then trying to sell them. The scales only tip to manufacturing is the volume is VERY high On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 1:15 PM Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > On Monday 08 April 2019 13:52:54 andy pugh wrote: > > > On Mon, 8 Apr 2019 at 15:12, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > > > About $100 including heatsink, DIN mount and screen-printed case. > > > > But that was a not-for-profit batch of 50 that I had made. > > > > > > Meaning for profit propduction will be closer to $200 USD/axis. > > > > How do you work that out? It's open-source hardware. > > You can even build it yourself. > > TANSTAAFL. People need to eat and pay the rent. Flush the toilet, etc > etc. That says they'll expect to get paid for their time. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
