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[jebem]

(09-26-2014 10:03 PM)walter b Wrote:  

(09-25-2014 01:29 PM)jebem Wrote:  But at 300USD a piece of hardware alone (projected price for a production batch of at least 100 units), there must be a strong reason to spend that amount of money on a calculator.

As usual, there's a constant and a batch-size dependent part of the costs. Seems the constant part is dominant here since Eric talks about 3D printing the calculator cases. Sounds like other technologies don't pay off unless batch size would be some (several) thousands. Too bad we can't abuse existing mechanical hardware.

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Yap.
And on top of that, it seems that the owners of this hardware project are willing to sell it only in the USA, due to regulatory certification costs.
Apparently they do not want to make this machine available as a kit for DIY's. That's why they need the USA FCC certification.
What a pity.