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Re:Raspberry Pi has PCBs for 100 beta $25 PCs by sliverstorm on Thursday December 01, 2011 @04:36PM (#3301488)
100 boards doesn't cost all that much more than 10, IIRC.
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Re:Raspberry Pi has PCBs for 100 beta $25 PCs by joezydeco on Friday December 02, 2011 @11:58PM (#3306957)
Populating them takes 10 times as long, if you're doing it by hand. If you're programming a pick-and-place bot and loading up reels of components, that takes time too.
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Re:Raspberry Pi has PCBs for 100 beta $25 PCs by sliverstorm on Saturday December 03, 2011 @02:18AM (#3307183)
Sure, but nobody said you were going to populate all 100. The point is sometimes simply to have "enough" boards on hand for testing that you don't need to do another run.
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