Re:Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020
by contingencies on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @06:50PM
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Not included. Use external module, eg. ENC28J60 (dominant and open source drivers for ~all platforms) which is cheapest, SPI based and 10M limited. For higher throughput look at Wiznet modules or bigger MCUs with MII/RMII which gets much pricier - with low end MCUs you can't generate or process that much data anyway.
Thanks! I didn't know the ENC28J60 could be that cheap. I had seen it in the past but it was always 10-15$ and with a microcontroller, that made it quite expensive. Next time I order a bunch of ESP8266 from China, I will add a bunch of them too.
Re:Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020
by contingencies on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @03:52PM
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To get a sense of realistic prices use 1000 piece quantities quoted on electronic component stockists in Guangdong such as http://lcsc.com (or via https://jlcpcb.com/quote#/parts which is a significant subset thereof) and http://hqchip.com (but avoid the red=import results). For a popular component such as a network module, roughly assume chip cost plus 1-2RMB for the PCB, resistors and socket and assembly. Same approach works for microprocessors.
Source? I'm looking for that right now and can't find any cheap microcontrollers that include an ethernet jack. The price I find make a Raspberry Pi a viable solution... which is quite sad.