The price will come down, soon, as soon as I can build a batch of about 50. I'm thinking of creating a mass buy sign-up, so I can put in a big order and offer them at a reduced price. Or some sort of credit on future purchases for those who buy now. I'm open to suggestions, and ideas on what is an attractive/competitive target price.
I appreciate that you're doing small batch SBCs and that adds up. As an artistic accomplishment, I love your work.
I think that for me personally, the outer envelope for a SBA (with the ability to use a USB keyboard and some sort of minimal display attachment) is $150.
The GPIO expansion and the cute case are fine as secondary things and I wouldn't mind giving over for that.
I don't know if there is some sort of uart option for serial comms on the board, I didn't see that called out. But if there is you perhaps want to mention it is your option for folks buying on a tighter budget.
Yes, there is a USB/UART on the CPU card, I think I do mention it, but not as directly as I should. Once you have the expansion board, then real terminals or computers with serial ports are possible too.
