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Re: Mindstorms on Slashdot
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 28 Nov 2005 20:16:01 GMT
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Bruce Boyes <bboyes@SPAMCAKEsystronix.com>
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At 11:57 AM 11/28/2005, Steve Hassenplug wrote:
> > This link makes for interesting reading. http://www.techuser.net/lego.html
> > Something doesn't gibe but I can't say quite what.
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> It's a very funny story. I really tried to read the whole thing, but I can't.
> I've spent too much time laughing.
Agreed. My favorite statement is this:
"The picture below shows an RCX brick along with a gaming device of
Chinese make that incorporates components similar to the ones used in
the RCX. The gaming device was purchased for approximately $1.83 from
a mom-and-pop retail store, and it is missing only the IR
communication and motor/sensor control circuitry... therefore, the
original equipment manufacturer's cost of making the gaming device
must be less than fifty cents."
I don't believe the RCX is made in China, using knock-off (clone)
parts. It's amazing how inexpensive the China products can be. A lot
of their ICs are illegal ripoffs, complete with fake OEM vendor
markings, which don't meet the spec of the parts they are cloning.
But, they are cheap!
http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2005Jul/bch20050726031526.htm
The ThinkPads are now made by Lenovo in China, and they are all about
$10 now, right?
If you add up the prices of the ICs in an RCX you get quite a
different number from $1...
The slashdotter forgot one small item too: the per-unit cost of NRE.
This is perhaps the reason the Pentium chips are not just the price
of the raw silicon wafer used to make them.
Bruce
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| I do agree with most of the comments about the blogging on slashdot, (especially about costing a product by its components only) but... There are two things no one has said that I want said (I wanted someone else to say it though!) 1) At the last (...) (18 years ago, 28-Nov-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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