[Gta04-owner] Invitation to indicate interest in next batch of GTA04A5 boards

[Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli]

On Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:19:55 +0000
Bob Ham <rah at settrans.net> wrote:

> On 2013-03-26 10:22, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
> 
> > PCB:		40 EUR + 2000 EUR one-time cost (machine setup)
> > Production:	45 EUR + 1000 EUR one-time cost (machine setup
> > and stencil)
> 
> Are these one-off costs the only ones?  If so, I'm wondering if there 
> is enough interest in the community to raise €3000 to enable new case 
> kits and consequently new cases to become available.  Perhaps this 
> one-off sum can be crowdfunded?
That would be good,
Once the community has its own case kit(antennas etc...) we would be
more free to change components on the PCB right? I was wondering about
the wifi chip... it requires a non-free firmware...
Some people might also want a bigger display...

Denis.