Hello. Ever since the first, and only, batch of ATUSB dongles have been sold out I was looking for someone to get a new batch going to keep this useful development device available. For newcomers here or people how are not familiar with it. The ATUSB dongle is a small USB device with a AVR micro controller and Atmel 15.4 transceiver. The firmware is open source and the kernel driver is working out of the box in mainline from 4.1. This makes is a nice development device if you want test 15.4 on your normal laptop or desktop. Attaching it to a embedded board with USB will also work but if you have GPIO lines available a transceiver module alone might be cheaper. Back to the topic. Finally the pieces are coming together and we are working towards a new batch of devices! Yay! :) Right now we are thinking of about 50 pieces. Its a device for a very specific niche after all so its hard to estimate numbers here. If we would to for 100 or more devices the ratio for the one-time setup costs in the fab would obviously be better. Thus I wanted to tru getting some estimation of what we would really need. What kind of interest is there before we have 99 in stock and only one sold :) If you would be interested to get 1 or more of them please let me know either here or in private. This would not be an order or such, just shown interest. The original batch had 120 ATUSB devices and a price tag of 39 EUR for one ATUSB. With a batch of only 50 we are unable to hold this price tag. Right now our hope would be to stay below 50 EUR. These prices are not fixed but our own estimates right now. If we the interest is high enough and we go with a 100 batch we hope to reduce the price to 45. And just to make this clear, this does not include any money for Werner or me putting time into this or the company making any profit. Its really all for hardware BOM, PCB boards, manufacturing, webshop handling, etc. All involved parties want to enable more people having access to this technology and our stack not making a profit. http://downloads.qi-hardware.com/people/werner/wpan/web/ Eager so see how much interest is there. :) regards Stefan Schmidt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wpan" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
