There's an ARM Cortex-M4 with Bluetooth inside a Covid test kit

Re:There's an ARM Cortex-M4 with Bluetooth inside a Covid te... by jeroenhd on Monday December 27, 2021 @08:35AM (#29702370)

Here in the NL they're about €2,50 each, so there may be some subsidizing going on in Germany (or we're getting ripped off for €1,50 per test).

Schools and food banks can hand out free self tests so there is definitely some kind of subsidizing going on here, but in a different way.

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Re:There's an ARM Cortex-M4 with Bluetooth inside a Covid te... by emteycz on Monday December 27, 2021 @12:22PM (#29704452)

Surely someone would import them and sell for €2 and then someone else would sell them for €1.5 and then someone else would sell them for €1.2 if you were just being ripped off. Is that really the only reason you could think of?

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Re:There's an ARM Cortex-M4 with Bluetooth inside a Covid te... by vitorgrs on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @11:58PM (#29733786)

lol here in brazil you can only find these in drug stores, and is arround R$100 (which would be arround 15 euro/17usd).

Keep in mind that R$100 means 10% of monthly minimum wage.......

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