| ??? 10/06/06 20:59 Read: times |
#125938 - Corporate vs hobbyist economics Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Erik Malund said:
Can't be that hard
Then why do those that make such stuff get $500+ for $10 worth of hardware? e.g. Needhams is (used to be?) just a small lose circuit board In things sold to engineers, there seems to be a relation between markup (price/components) relative to whether it "Can't be that hard" to make your own. YMMV. I've never seen a strong correlation between price and difficulty of design. Most things sold to engineers are paid for by their employer, and even at the high prices charged for such things, it's cheaper than paying your own hardware engineer to do the work. The programmer I have was manufactured by a one-man outfit in Idaho called Target Electronics. I helped the developer with hardware and software modifications, and received schematics and code under an NDA. Target has been out of business for several decades now, and efforts to contact the former owner have been unsuccessful. Hence, although IANAL, I don't think the NDA still applies. There is also Circuit Cellar's Serial EPROM Programmer (SEP), for which an 87xx programming adapter was published in Circuit Cellar Ink in 1989. Schematics are freely available--shouldn't be difficult for a HW guru to make an improved version. |
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