• Hazdaz@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I didn’t think it was a scam, but I figured it was a way for them to make some money while still stating it is Open.

    How many others are considering building one?

    • j4k3@lemmy.worldOPM
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      1 year ago

      No one is making money off of small run hardware like this. The time invested in such a project will never be recuperated. This is a passion and/or university graduate project. The boards available are likely just extras from a small run they did with a prototyping service and were close to a minimum order quantity. If you order the same type of thing from somewhere like PCBway, you’ll be stuck with extras too.

      I’m too busy learning AI for a project like this ATM, but I would like to build this at some point in the future.