What is the difference in cost between making Bitaxes instead of buying them from someone?
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depends on the scale... But probably anywhere from 40-60% more expensive to buy than build. Me and a buddy are looking at building one, then scaling it. Most of these places are just getting a shop to preassemble them anyways and then reselling. We are looking at in house manufacturing in the states. We might be the only ones if we do and I know how to self host everything to sell them p2p in the states with no middleman. We may be the only ones doing that if we do. Buddy is finishing his lab now. This will be the first project built there.
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I thought about selling a dozen or so just to pay for the tools I don't already have. If you can solder and are anal retentive, these are well within reach. I know I definitely do not want to buy the Hex at retail.
We already have a lot of tooling. We're both hardware enthuists and we both did device repair for living for about 5 years.
Oh yeah, I was speaking more to the average person who had some degree of skill. It sounds like y'all could be a serious manufacturing operation, though. Sending these things mainstream will change everything.
Making them yourself is obviously cheaper, but not by a wide margin unless you have means to scale up the numbers significantly.
I thought about it for my shop and ran the numbers, it would have been economically feasible than getting them from OSMU starting from 600pcs which would require an insane upfront Investment of either cash or hundreds of hours of soldering which I don't have the time for. Also lots of things can go wrong when doing it yourself.