On 12/19/06, Abhijit Menon-Sen <> wrote:
> Hi Rich.
>
> At 2006-12-19 16:44:53 -0000, wrote:
> >
> > There are many recorders entering the market but there still are no
> > good inexpensive 24 bit affordable "frog loggers".
>
> What would you consider inexpensive?
>
> The gumstix components would cost about $250. I don't know how much to
> expect to pay for a good ADC and pre-amps (and whatever else I'd need
> in order to use a good microphone). Add on some more for power supply
> and miscellaneous components, and we're in the $300-400 range even by
> a fairly conservative estimate, with weatherproofing, microphone, and
> storage all being unaccounted for.
Also an interface (LEDs and LCD panel?), connectors (remarkably
expensive!), and perhaps a strategy for providing phantom for mics...
and the stix, do they have integrated batteries? A charger? The
ability to use outboard supplies? :)
Fwiw my "day job" company looked into such solutions for a different
project (but one with similar complexity and sophistication) with the
same idea of leveraging a pre-engineered general purpose product. In
the end the fact that you're already paying a big (eg 4-8x) multiplier
over component costs took all of these types of things out of the
running and we designed from the ground up with an ARM processor.
best,
aaron
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