[Battlemesh] What hardware still works?

[Ben West]

As Henning said, all of them combined, and also speaking from professional
experience in hardware design.  More parts = higher cost, always, and
especially so for multi-PCB designs compared to single-PCB.

Vendors like TP-Link no doubt would make some effort to cost down
connectors to the cheapest/flimsiest available (i.e. connectors with very
few connect/disconnect cycles), but they still represent additional BOM
items, additional assembly cost, etc etc.


On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Henning Rogge <hrogge at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 4:08 PM, Juliusz Chroboczek
> <jch at pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr> wrote:
> >> hardware platforms that push the radio to a separate PCIe card will
> >> probably 2x or 3x the overall device cost.
> >
> > Interesting.  Can you give more details?  Is it the connectors, or the
> > separate IC that kill you?  If the former, what's so expensive about the
> > connectors, the connector itself or the more complicated assembly?
>
> All of them combined?
>
> Its always cheaper to put everything in one (CPU-)die.
>
> Henning
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