On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Edward Cherlin wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 3:57 AM, Koen Kooi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > Op 22 aug 2008, om 02:29 heeft David Farning het volgende > geschreven: > > > >> Welcome to the Sugar on the BeagleBoard project. It seems that we > have > >> all of the pieces in place to do a port. > > Very good. Thank you. > > I see that BeagleBoards list at $149. Do you have any idea of > quantity > pricing? Apparently TI sells them only through Digikey, which only > gives single-unit prices on its site. I can see applications for data > acquisition and control worldwide, as well as for teaching embedded > systems development. I am thinking of possibilities for placement of > systems through microfinance, assuming that we can find and document > ways to increase income using BeagleBoard+Sugar more efficiently than > by other methods.
I do not believe that Digi-Key plans any volume pricing for Beagle Boards. The boards themselves are not a TI product, despite a TI developer being responsible for the design. The schematic and layout are all open and anyone can buy the parts and make them. Digi-Key has been very good and has purchased a few thousand boards through a contract manufacturer to provide them to the open source development community and a good price (and we are very happy about that). Koen has replied to the Angstrom and OE related questions in the other thread so... <snip> _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
