BBB/G prices constantly rising

[Karl Karpfen]

Hi,

during last year the price BeagleBone Black has risen for about EUR 20. It started at a bit more than EUR 40 and now has arrived at EUR 60,00 (and above). Amazingly the price became higher the more hardware has been in stock of the suppliers.

Now I see the same for the BeagleBone Green, it started at EUR 42 and already has arrived at EUR 50 at some suppliers.

So...what is the reason for this? Are there any expensive components on the board which pull up the price that massive?

Thanks!

[Gerald Coley]

As to the BeagleBone Black, we have not increased our prices to the distributors for a very long time. What you may be seeing is people buying boards from distributors and then reselling them with an additional markup. We have a MSRP, but that is only a MSRP. We can't control what the distributors charge.

Gerald

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[Robert Nelson]

In the last two years, the euro has become weaker:

http://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=USD&to=EUR&view=2Y

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[Gerald Coley]

I was going to say that, but I assumed that was obvious and had already been factored in.

Gerald

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[Karl Karpfen]

Ah...no...you are right, I forgot that there are some people playing stupid games with the currencies...

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[Daniel Escasa]

Schematics are available online. Are those sufficient to build your own?

I was checking on Arduino resources and got Paperduino (http://paperduino.eu/doku.php) envy :) It should be possible to build your own Beagle, shouldn't it?

[evilwulfie]

If you try to build your own it will cost you a magnitude greater more then just buying one

Gerald has got the cost down on the current bones by building them in large quantitys.

but good luck.

On 4/5/2016 1:58 AM, Daniel Escasa wrote:

Schematics are available online. Are those sufficient to build your own?

I was checking on Arduino resources and got Paperduino (http://paperduino.eu/doku.php) envy :) It should be possible to build your own Beagle, shouldn't it?

[Chris]

It'll be a minimum 6 layer board with multiple rev's to work out the kinks.  Probably around $500 a pop.  And lot's of time spent getting high speed signal traces put down correctly, dense BGA signal routing, dealing with distributors and inventory, spec'ing  parts, populating the board with 0402 or 0603 parts by hand, etc.  It's fun for some people like me, but I wouldn't recommend it for most.