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sleight42 t1_jch4zss wrote

Reply to comment by Now_with_more_cheese in Open-source tool from MIT’s Senseable City Lab lets people check air quality, cheaply. by chrisdh79

That's.... a long list. And no prices listed.

$100ish just for the enclosure and unknown for the electronics.

This seems more costly than several closed source solutions.

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kilgore_trout8989 t1_jciv0vr wrote

19 entries is like the BOM size for a tiny homemade LCD display haha. Some of these components are like a couple bucks, in bulk. Switches, buck converters, USB ports, accelerometers, etc. are probably things just lying around the house of this kind of things target audience.

Edit: They'd also likely be able to build their own enclosures with a 3d printer.

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douglasg14b t1_jciros5 wrote

> That's.... a long list

The list has 19 components, that's not a long list at all?

> $100ish just for the enclosure and unknown for the electronics.

The model numbers are there, you can price them out! It's not a big mystery.

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sleight42 t1_jcj83gb wrote

Ok, but the enclosure list included prices. It would be helpful to have similar in the electronics BOM. But, then, the electronics part probably isn't for me or most people.

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