Propeller - Guess The Price
OK,· a few weeks to go, lets see who can guess the price of the Propeller 40 Pin Chip, Parallaxes Dev Board, and the Hydra Dev board by Andre'(released later on). I have 3 browny points to give away and they will be given to the closest guess in each category. Let the guessing begin.
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Propeller 40 Pin Chip
Parallaxes Dev Board
Hydra Dev board by Andre'
Post Edited (Cariad) : 3/28/2006 10:29:22 PM GMT
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Propeller 40 Pin Chip
Parallaxes Dev Board
Hydra Dev board by Andre'
Post Edited (Cariad) : 3/28/2006 10:29:22 PM GMT
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Propeller 40 Pin Chip - $25
Parallaxes Dev Board - $150 for full devkit
Hydra Dev board by Andre' - $150
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DevBoard $149
Hydra $179
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DevBoard $147.69
Hydra $178.95
Why? I dunno. I guess the numbers look a bit more intelligent to me.
Shipping to Taiwan? [noparse][[/noparse]no comment, people are begining to tell me to come home]
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"When all think alike, no one is thinking very much.' - Walter Lippmann (1889-1974)
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Post Edited (Kramer) : 3/17/2006 3:35:07 PM GMT
DevBoard: $99
Hydra: $99
Misprogramming·your propeller-based robot to bring you hot coffee and drop it onto your crotch:· Priceless
Dev board $129.99
Bundle Pack $99.99
Hydra $119.99
I just hope I'm real high on these gustimates...
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Just tossing my two bits worth into the bit bucket
KK
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Greetings from Germany,
G
$14.99 for the Propeller...
$14.99 for the Dev board...
$14.99 for the Bundle....
$14.99 for the Hydra...
$60.00 total...
Better???
LOL...
Guenther, I lived in Landstuhl for over 7 years... when to highschool in Ramstine & K-Town... you anywhere near there? I did a lot of traveling as well... but that was back in the late 70's early 80's... when I was young... much younger... [noparse]:)[/noparse]
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Just tossing my two bits worth into the bit bucket
KK
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your new quotes make a nice average
You may have noticed that I did not post a quote so far. This is because I have another idea in mind:
Parallax might charge a basic price for the Propeller, covering the chip, the enclosure, the hub and the hub RAM/ROM plus one Cog.
More Cogs will be licensed on a per-Cog basis. In order to activate another Cog, you need to inter-connect a certain number and combination of I/O pins at power-up once. So, after paying the Cog license fee to Parallax, they will provide you with a schematic showing how to inter-connect those pins. Maybe, there will be special discounts offered when you buy more than one Cog license at a time with a "hyper-interconnect" schematic allowing you to activate more than one Cog at a time.
Hey, you lived in the Landstuhl/Ramstein area for a time? I know these places but I'm living close to Cologne, i.e. in the mid-western part of Germany.
Don't worry, in the 70's, early 80's I was young..much younger too
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Greetings from Germany,
G
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Speech & Video IC's for BasicStamps
DevBoard: $69
Hydra: $169
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DTQ
Dev board $199.00
Hydra $299.00
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Just tossing my two bits worth into the bit bucket
KK
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Jon Williams
Applications Engineer, Parallax
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Just tossing my two bits worth into the bit bucket
KK
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Propeller Demo Board: $149.95
Propeller Professional Development Board: $219.95
PropellerWorks 1.0 Kit with PDB: $299.95
Hydra Board: $260.95
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Well... given the Prpeller Beanie printed on the chip, and the lack of any 'uptightness' in Parallax, I seriously expect it to be launched April 1.
Which will mean that the next two weeks after that, until I get my paycheck, will be agony...
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I know I know it's awful for me to suggest such a thing, I wouldn't have done so if I didn't already have one in my little paws
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I'm confused about one thing, though. People (non-Parallax people, unless I missed something) are posting code for the Propeller that seems to have been tested - is the IDE available for download, or is this posted code just theoretical or "might work, might not work" stuff?
Also, did we ever get a concrete answer about whether or not there will be an IDE for Mac OSX?
This is a pretty strange way to handle a new product release - I've never seen anything quite like it.
Jamie
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Jamie C. Pole
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J.C. Pole & Associates, Inc.
http://www.jcpa.com/
We invited several guests -- most long-time and advanced Parallax customers -- to our facility for a preview of the Propeller and put preliminary tools and silicon into their hands.· So the answer is no, the IDE is not publicly available; we've got a bit of work to do yet and we're getting great feedback from that wonderful group of guests.
We're a Windows-oriented company, so the IDE is a Windows tool.· That said, we will be creating files for Mac and Linux developers who want to create custom tools for those operating systems.
This is a different kind of product; good, bad, or indifferent, we're breaking a lot of rules (or expectations, anyway).
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Jon Williams
Applications Engineer, Parallax
Post Edited (Jon Williams (Parallax)) : 3/17/2006 7:50:24 PM GMT
Thanks for the info...
Jamie
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Principal Consultant
J.C. Pole & Associates, Inc.
http://www.jcpa.com/
Yikes - prices are climbing fast!!!
Won't be able to afford it by the time it comes out.......
I still find it astonishing how much you can do with this one chip...
I just really keep the prices down so us regular joes can afford it
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Just tossing my two bits worth into the bit bucket
KK
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Actually, I believe I suggested that way back the first day after the information showed up in a thread in the Sandbox forum...
Jon was very quick to refute that idea.
Yes, it IS a joke... Upon the rest of the microcontroller-industry...
They could just as well have written 'Nyah!' on it instead of the Propeller Beanie because they're thumbing their noses at companies like Atom and others who have been busy copying the Basic Stamps, and saying 'copy THIS!'
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Jon Williams
Applications Engineer, Parallax
DevBoard: $108
Hydra: $208
Remember that Parallax just invested a bunch in the SX line and really doesn't want to se it trumped by the newest jewel in its crown so there has to be some sort of "ouch factor" when choosing the Propeller over the SX. But then they do sell the SX48 proto board for $10 so what do I know?
"DISCLAIMER: The following is purely speculation based on no facts what so ever" [noparse];)[/noparse]
Propeller 40-pin: $49.95
DevBoard: $99.95
Hydra: $129.95
I may have my pre-release one, but I'm itching for a few more so that I can cut students lose on them and start using them for end of semester projects! We try to do a lot of multiple sensing and control, and end up using several BS2's to get it done. One Propeller could sure go a long way [noparse]:)[/noparse] As it is I'm too worried about them destroying mine.
-Martin