Hi

How much is an Arduino worth?.

I have five new Atmega168's with matching 16Mhz crystals.

I'll mail them individually Monday to the first five people who send me a shipping address (in North/South America only please).  Don't send any money until you receive it. (Edit: I can ship anywhere except antarctica... it might be slow, but you'll get it eventually)



Once you receive the Arduino chip, you can send me whatever you think it's worth: you choose how much to pay.
I'll send my paypal via email. For reference, the Atmega168 with crystal, tax and shipping to you will cost me about $10 CAD or ($ 8.50USD). But hey-- pay what you want!

Send your mailing address here: ( terminalcity <at> gmail dot com).

I got this idea from a 'trust' network called Phranc, that distributed hundreds of thousands of Garmin GPS  connectors that a guy made in his back yard... and they based every one of the hundreds of thousands of transactions on trust and a 'pledge'.


Daniel

PS: I am only sending out five of these, and then that's it! Not looking to go into business, just interested in the experiment, and seeing if a trust network could be applied to the Arduino...

all gone!

D

Respect!

I really appreciate your initiative.
Is it “cheating” if I pay for some of your time?

Amit

Hej,

I like this experiment, but you have to make it in a bit more massive way. I am thinking in taking over your initiative and design a circuit to send to people, letting them pay whatever they consider it is worth. I am in Korea right now and I think that I can get access to a nice production place where to make something special like a multiple inputs board.

How much would people pay to increase the amount of inputs to 64? Don't you wonder?

Let's see what happens

/d