Re: [Gumstix-users] Order Motherboard

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Jonas Schockaert wrote
> 
> Hi, I'm Jonas Schockaert from Belgium. I'm 18years old and I'm searching a
> company that can create the motherboard I request.
> The motherboard consists:A round lithium battery (3V) on the motherboard
> that needs to give power supply to the micro sd card reader and a little
> lcd screen.A micro sd card reader on the motherboardA on/off buttonThe
> motherboard needs to read the micro sd card and convert it to the lcd
> screen. (it would be a movie)The motherboard will be very small.
> (approximately 2.5cm height and 3.5cm width) (even big als the little lcd
> screens)You think it is possible to make such a motherboard?The lcd screen
> will be oval.If your company could make such a motherboard, What would be
> the prize approximately to make such a prototype motherboard?If no, Do you
> know companies that make "order motherboards"? And do you know a company
> that "cuts" lcd screens in the shape I would like to order?
> Thanks a lot!I hope I hear from you soon!
> Kind regards,Jonas Schockaert 		 	   		  
> 

Hi Jonas,

You are posting to a Gumstix forum, so presumably you've already seen that
the current Gumstix offerings are sized around 5.8cm long x 1.7cm wide x
0.4cm height (perhaps bigger than your concept). If you want a smaller COM,
then that's quite significant time and/or money, depending on the type of
video you want to show and the resolution/framerate you want for the video
(decisions that drive the type of processing power needed in that custom
system). 

If you increase your dimensions a bit, and find a consumer oval LCD screen
(you might find an instrument panel LCD with the resolution you need in some
super-high end automobile), you could pay to get a prototype that uses a
Gumstix for under $10k dev cost. If you put the time/knowledge in yourself,
you can probably build/prototype it for under $500 component cost.

The more you can find things that are already offered in the market, the
cheaper your development gets. The more you can do yourself, the cost drops
even more drastically.

Lucas

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