You don't have to make nearly as many boards as that.

Here's a good example:
https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A64/A64-OLinuXino/open-source-hardware

They don't make more than K's of them and they make a profit. In fact I
could give them the schematics and PCB files and they would make them
for a few $$ over cost.

On 6/13/19 11:59 AM, John Dammeyer wrote:
> Yes but... you have to make a few 100 thousand at least to bring the 
> production costs down.  And that requires a sizable investment.  That won't 
> happen for a LinuxCNC port.
>
> So you have to have the marketing infrastructure to sell it to more than just 
> the LinuxCNC community.
>
> John
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: bari [mailto:bari00...@gmail.com]
>> Sent: June-13-19 9:33 AM
>> To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
>> Subject: Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC Processor
>>
>> https://beagleboard.org/ai
>>
>> ~$100
>>
>> And once again, no open 3d accel drivers. Come on TI, use mali or
>> Vivante or open the drivers. The world will not end (sky fall, pigs fly,
>> etc) if you do.
>>
>> Depending on my profit motives I can make a board now for less using a
>> $6 4-8 core ARM SOC with mali gpu (Allwinner, Rockchip) and a few
>> STM32's for stepping or a <$25 FPGA.
>>
>> -Bari
>>
>> On 6/13/19 11:15 AM, John Dammeyer wrote:
>>> We've been discussing various kinds of modules to make a dedicated
>> LinuxCNC processor.  This may just be it.
>>> https://beagleboard.org/blog/2019-05-16-beaglebone-ai-preview
>>>
>>> https://beagleboard.org/ai
>>>
>>> With 4 PRUs to deal with the hardware the biggest issue might be access to
>> enough pins to do everything one needs.
>>> John
>>>
>>>
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