1. Development of the PCBs

2. Development of the Cases



3. Development of the keyboard

4. Development of the LCDs

5. Other tidbits

As promised, here is another post.Not a newspost though, as all news have been told yesterday already.But as we're nearly finished, I thought it might be a nice idea to take a look back at the costs that the Pyra development produced.I guess you won't find anything like that from a different company - but we're different, and part of the reason the Pyra is going to be born at all is because you all support openness and transparency, even if the Pyra costs more than similar products.Great, let's start now on the costs overview, shall we?The PCBs are definitely the most complex and therefore most expensive parts of the development.Designing the PCBs has cost 75,095.89 EUR so far.Most of that were wages for the design, but also ordering sample parts and producing sample PCBs for various testings are included here.Not included are the costs for the produced prototypes (which is another whopping 52,639.32 EUR).The costs for the cases take the second place: 61,920.00 EURThose are the costs for the design, molds and samples we received.That's actually quite cheap (I've checked with some companies in Germany and their offers were about 180,000.00 EUR and higher).The downside of course is that things weren't going as smooth as I had wished and it took quite a long time.But well, the price difference was worth it... we could've never afforded it for 180,000.00 EUR!Still, once the Pyra sells well, I want to work on improving the case. Making it thinner. And of course I'll sell in the shop as well, so everyone can upgrade if he/she wants to.189,655.21 EURThird place goes to the development costs for the keymat (design, molds, changes, samples): 19,220.00 EURHalf of that is the mold (10,000.00 EUR), about 4,000.00 EUR were changes.208,875.21 EURNext up: Development costs for the LCDs: 9,371.25 EURDevelopment costs? Weren't those existing LCDs?Well, yes. Except for that they had no touchscreen.So custom touchscreens had to me made. We needed to test various ones and they needed their own tools to fit perfectly on the LCD.And of course we also needed samples of the LCDs218,246.46 EURYep, those are the final costs so far... with 1000 preorders, 218.25 EUR of each unit are just being used to cover the DEVELOPMENT costs.If we had 10,000 preorders, the development costs per unit would break down to 21.83 EUR.I hope this shows the reasons some things move slow. Sure, we could've increased the development speed by creating multiple molds in parallel for tests or pay express costs - but development costs are already pretty high.Increasing it just to get it done faster sadly isn't really possible (unless you find someone who would like to donate 100.000 EUR or higherWell, those were the main development costs.What's not included are samples of other LCDs or parts we tested but didn't use in the end. Shipping costs needed to ship things around.No wage for me is included, as I don't really get anything.For those who want to know: I'm getting paid by my company (OpenPandora GmbH) which basically consists of the shop and some development and productions (Retrode, Pyra, etc.).My wage is the allowed minimum for my position (CEO), which is 800 EUR per month (though thanks to taxes, I only get 642 EUR per month paid out).Based on the average time I work on the Pyra and the shop, my wage would be about 2,40 EUR per hour... and I also have to pay insurances, social system fees, etc.It's pretty clear that I can't live from that, that's why I also have my other main job (TV productions).That hopefully also explains why I can't work 24/7 on the Pyra and sometimes I am late with news or some tests I need to do.But right now, I want to keep as much of the profit of the shop ready for the PyraFeel free to ask any further questions, in case you have some