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Gamecab:
Ok, You twisted my leg, I'll do it. I'll let you guys know the rough prices tonight/tomorrow for just the kits. I just needed a reason to order a board for myself too, but paying $90+ for a single board was just too much money. The unit cost of 25+ boards is drastically cheaper.
cholin:
Yeah buying in quantities is better because the company charges you mostly for the designing and silkscreening of boards. If you have an order of 25 boards, they already have the silkscreen and solder layout ready, so they just produce another copy. If one board's screening development is $15 then all of the board are usually around $20.
I did alot of research on this as I wanted to develop my little LED driver board (its not what yours is) but once I got down to finding the market and drawing the board out, I got lazy. I spent a few hours drawing but I can't fit the parts in reasonably without solderring wires all across the board because each input needs two outputs :P Where do you get these boards done?
Hoagie_one:
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Gamecab:
Ok, After a few days of smacking my head against the keyboard I was finally able to produce a LPT board that can use 40 Switches. I'm shooting for another design to do 60 or better but I'll have to read up on that. The board itself looks like a web that a drunken spinder may have made after 3 days of playing Maze Craze ;D.
The boards and all of the parts would come out to around $20 as a sellable kit. Personally I know you can buy a key wiz for around that price but I just had an itch to create this board.
So my questions are:
1. Do you guys think a market may exist for an LPT board?
2. Do you think an LPT board will perform better than a Keyboard encoder type board.
3. Do you think it's worth it to move forward on production? I feel like it may be a gamble as I need to order at least 30 boards to get an OK price.
Let me know.
Thanks
Charlie
Hoagie_one:
as far as i can tell, the thing worked great. but economically, if its not 60 inputs, there are better alternatives. If you can get teh 60 inputs at $20, or there about, then its worth it, but for 40, I'm not so sure.