We're making an open-source $30 GPS/mesh radio, would like advice

Re:We're making an open-source $30 GPS/mesh radio, would lik... by exabrial on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @08:47PM (#22541769)

XBee it's already at an $30 and $15 price point, I think to 'disrupt' you would need to be profitable at a -10x price point. This is my opinion. I'm usually wrong. But you asked.

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Re:We're making an open-source $30 GPS/mesh radio, would lik... by punkgeek on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @10:48PM (#22542484)

Thank you. This is a full circuitboard with GPS+battery+lora+CPU+oled screen for $30. So I'm not trying to compete with a $15 radio devboard that someone has to solder into their project, but more something that 'just works'. And open source, for fun, so not selling it at all ;-)

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Re:We're making an open-source $30 GPS/mesh radio, would lik... by airbreather on Friday March 13, 2020 @02:26AM (#22565207)

Maybe you could persuade M5Stack to do a version of hardware that suits.

Looks like maybe they do already for $40 if you combine a base and LORA unit -

https://m5stack.com/collections/m5-core

https://m5stack.com/collections/m5-module

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Re:We're making an open-source $30 GPS/mesh radio, would lik... by mcstafford on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @09:03PM (#22541883)

> I'm usually wrong.

That's either insightful, or sad... and I can relate.

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Re:We're making an open-source $30 GPS/mesh radio, would lik... by exabrial on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @09:24PM (#22542002)

Haha not sad. It's hard to have an informed opinion, better to acknowledge it.

I am impressed with the XBee series 3 modules that I've bought. Digi is 100% behind the product. The documentation is great. The engineering is of the 'we're go to the Moon' era not 'move fast and break things' crap the perforates startups. I'm very impressed so they're a tough entrenched to beat.

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