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by hodgesmr • 11 years ago

5 2 11 years ago

I like the concept, but it seems... expensive.

Maybe I'm just spoiled by the Raspberry Pi, but I'm having trouble swallowing a $60 machine (and that's without any of the other gizmos that attach to it) when there are examples of products in the same niche that come out to a bit more than half that. Does the fancy low-power radio really cost that much?

On the other hand, I don't think the Arduino or the various other prototyping/microcontroller boards like this are any less-ridiculously priced, so maybe this is actually competitive and sane relatively-speaking. It still seems strange, however.

On the third hand, I suppose I could just download the schematics, source everything out, and figure out how to build it by hand. I have a feeling it would end up cheaper, even without being able to take advantage of bulk rates on the components.

andreashansen• 11 years ago

How does this compare to, let's say, Spark Core or Spark Photon?

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