World’s first $9 computer shakes up market

[singular_me]

nothing is said about the wages of the workers assembling it... or is it made by robots?
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World’s first $9 computer shakes up market
Sunday 24th May 2015


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QYnyO5XDNg

[Hitch]

Wow, that's an even better deal than my $35 gold apple watch. There's no point in spending a lot of money for something that can just go poof by a fat finger from TPTB anyway.

[ShortJohnSilver]

nothing is said about the wages of the workers assembling it... or is it made by robots?



Everything you see in the video, would in fact be assembled by robots. I was in a place that made video cards and even 17 years ago, it was highly automated.

Basically each chip or component, is on a long spool - think 16mm film with sprockets, but each frame has 1 particular kind of chip, per reel.

The best video I can find is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8qkaTsr2_o

This is called a "pick and place" machine.

Simplified steps are "make board according to layout, pre-drill all holes" ; "feed into pick and place machine" ; "run through wave solder machine" (which solders all the connections at once, by using a pool of molten solder and having a "wave" be induced across the pool - it touches the pins, which suck up the solder, but the solder doesn't stick to anything else ; "heat and then separate boards" ; "test boards" (usually spot checks or statistical process control) etc.

Note, that the small board of the $9 computer, would be laid out on a 8-up (or whatever fits) board - then 8 identical boards would be made in 1 pass; a separate step is to cut the boards apart of course.

The most labor would be in packaging the finished product into individual bags/boxes - though probably that is also automated.

[Shami-Amourae]

I would love to develop stuff for one of those computers. I'm too busy though.

:(

You could easily start a business writing software for these things:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkfBWAJ7kbI


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chNTg2IITYs

It doesn't come out till November though and it is a Kickstarter deal so it could also be a scam, but probably not, hopefully.

[Horn]

All made possible buy material market and offshore engineering suppression we are familiar with of course.

[Neuro]

All made possible buy material market and offshore engineering suppression we are familiar with of course.
What in the world does that mean? Is that written with a random word processor?

[Shami-Amourae]

Everything you see in the video, would in fact be assembled by robots. I was in a place that made video cards and even 17 years ago, it was highly automated.


I don't think it's humanly possible to design these things anymore. Only robots can do it. Humans are becoming more and more ignorant of how our technology works as it gets increasingly more advanced and complicated.

I remember certain former forum member telling me on he made simple computers by hand, and it was a very specialized market that only a few people did in the world still did. Basically there is still a demand for these low tech machines since low tech is nearly impossible to hack, and still always in demand since of that.

[Glass]

ok so its better than raspberry or gumsticks or arduino?

[Twisted Titan]

It will be a sucess as long as it doesnt take windoze