Yes we agree, $39 is certainly our ideal target sell price but we will have to crunch the numbers when we have finished product in our hands. Some things like GST really kick the pricing around.
There is already a fairly major issue we are dealing with.
The 6800 micro is getting harder to find easily and so this is affecting its price and the 9602 used as an oscillator is practically impossible to find at all, anywhere, at any price.
It looks like we will have to use a 6802 (they are quite plentiful & still reasonably priced). If we take this route then the 9602 is not required as the 6802 has an inbuilt oscillator and uses a common and inexpensive external crystal. A bonus with this is that the 6810 RAM is also no longer required as it is also inside the 6802 and this RAM is close to the 'battery corrosion zone' anyway. This means that a board builder would have to have, or purchase, a 6802 but we think this is still a managable situation as they are only a few dollars.
It is things like this non-availability that we are doing our best to address as it's no good making a replacement PCB if you can't find the parts to build it!!
