Hello. On 30.07.2016 23:51, Stefan Schmidt wrote: > 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. :) Just to clarify this a bit more. The devices will be available from an online shop with invoice and all you need for company ordering. Especially the shipping part was something I was worried about but the company helping us here have done that now for a while. 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
