> The 35 states where SpaceX won FCC funding are Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
Just mentioning for those interested, but dissuaded by the $949 design fee comments in this thread, SparkFun is providing a temporary discount:
> To encourage you to give ALC a try, we’re offering 50% off the design fee on all new orders through 11:59 p.m. on 12/31/2020 with promocode: ALCSPARKFUN50
Disclaimer: Not at all affiliated with SparkFun, but I'm a fan of fun with sparks (magic-smoke, !smokey-the-bear).
I'm really wondering who this is aimed at that a 50% discount would make any difference. As an individual hobbyist, this is a service that provides maybe $50-100 worth of value to me at most. If I was looking to start some kind of businesses in my garage, my very first priority in putting the business together would be making sure either I or a partner knew how to do this ourselves, so the value add would be ~$0. If I'm a cog in some big corporation, I can probably put $949 on a corporate credit card just as easily as $475.
Probably researchers working with grant money, or people in corporate R&D with tight deadlines, but not so tight budgets.
They also save you from having to learn how to actually design the board yourself, so if you don't know how to do that with modern tooling, then you can pay $1000 for someone else to do it per board, rather than hire someone out of your project budget to do it.
If only there were other companies with competing products which would assuage one’s concerns regarding privacy and/or anonymity and guard against Luddite lifestyles.
“Must sell well...hill to die on” feel a bit extreme, particularly given everything that has transpired in 2020.
Other VR headsets are far more expensive and some require tethering to expensive gaming computers. Oculus Quest 2 has no true competitor at its price point, and some might say any price point.
