Curious where you are getting those figures from. Looking at the usual suspects (newark, digikey, sparkfun etc...) gives figures like $5-20 a piece (even at bulk).
Ive run into this before with some hobbyist electronics (high fov IR LEDs) where the prices were much higher than one would expect.
> Curious where you are getting those figures from. Looking at the usual suspects (newark, digikey, sparkfun etc...) gives figures like $5-20 a piece (even at bulk).
edit: I meant to say the cost is 5.76 USD each per 1000 pieces, I should've been clear. In the industry, it's common to quote the price as "1k price", which is the 1 pcs price per a bunch of 1000 pcs.
> I've run into this before with some hobbyist electronics (high fov IR LEDs) where the prices were much higher than one would expect.
Hobbyist electronics are more expensive than the raw price, sometimes an order of magnitude, mainly because they're not mass-produced. If the part is expensive, this effect is there. But usually the cheaper the part, the stronger the effect.
In electronics mass-production, when you already have a PCB and you add a new chip, the cost is often close to the chip itself.
On the other hand, a breakout board or a devboard usually only has few chips on the board, sometimes nothing more than the soldered chip, with a voltage regulator and some pull-up resistors for "plug-and-play" experiments. Also, they are produced in small quantity so the cost cannot be low, and finally vendors like Sparkfun usually sell them to the hobbyists at a premium. For hobbyists, the point is to have something ready to work with, plus it's increasing impractical to solder some chips by yourself due to the increasingly small footprints, and anyway, even if you are gonna run a production, you need to see how it works first. So these hobbyists electronics are more expensive compared to the cost in the industry.
Curious where you are getting those figures from. Looking at the usual suspects (newark, digikey, sparkfun etc...) gives figures like $5-20 a piece (even at bulk).
Ive run into this before with some hobbyist electronics (high fov IR LEDs) where the prices were much higher than one would expect.