Parts supply and current progress.

[pbanj]

I'm going through multiple places to try and keep the part cost down. A huge issue is the xbox ram chip. They're not exactly cheap, but they also don't have to actually function either. So if anyone has a bunch of dead/bad chips but they're still in on piece, I'd love to take them off your hands.

The total cost of all the other components comes out to right around $520. the cheapest I've been able to find the ram chips is about the same, waiting on one seller to reply as they would be only $300 vs the $545(iirc) I found before.

I also need to order some already finished for Crowd Supply. They want to see a working prototype. Which I still "haven't" done. I had some made, they had a slight error that I corrected. So now I have to have new ones made for them. The issue had nothing to do with the function of the board. $80 for 5 boards and the parts for 1, I'll be assembling it. So that might be a bit as I use spare cash on this and we most likely have to move come February. So money will be tight for a bit.

A huge help would be to share this. Crowd Supply want's to see the demand, and discussions about it. Well that's happened over two different discord servers, and a private chat. So not exactly a ton of people know about it.

[pbanj]

so i've made the decision to change the ram chip to something else. im able to get EPM240T100C5N for $0.37 each
still looking around though