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I looked around the pages but I couldn't see any cost info. I realize this is an open source project but it would still be nice to get a ballpark estimate on how much it would cost to build one of these yourself. Anyone know?


I imported the BOM for the tracker to Mouser and it looks like it's around $100 in components for one board. It looks like the boards with ENIG finish and filled and capped vias would be ~$40 for five boards + ~$17 shipping to the US from jlcpcb. ~$15 of the board cost comes from the via covering.

The most expensive component, the DWM3001CTR13 Ultra-WideBand module, is $37.77 in single quantities. I don't know much about about UWB, but I wonder if instead putting a BLE beacon on the tracker and using a chip supporting Bluetooth direction finding on the home station could allow the tracker to be a bit smaller and cheaper at the cost of some localization performance for the indoor mode (actually I just saw someone already brought this up in the project Slack).

This isn't including the Home Station part which doesn't seem fully documented yet.It looks like there is more discussion on the project Slack.




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