Re: POLL: Please give us your 2 cents about a Nucore case
Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 11:36 pm
We are doing our best to cater to a majority of pin2k owners wants/needs. That's one of the reasons we ask you for your opinions when we make our decisions. Thank you for your input here.
Kenbo, there will be a drop-in complete solution regardless of what we decide to do with the case issue. There will also be an a la carte option for people who want to save money or come up with their own solutions for certain components.
Jazman, our goal was to do as much as we could in software but we always knew there would be some hardware component. I think everyone will agree we did very well. There was one thing we could not do in software and maintain stability. I won't go into all the technical reasons but trust me we tried. So the custom hardware will use a usb interface to connect to the host. Since we had to build this board we took it a step further and added a hardware interface to it so we could later expand the system with mods (physical knocker, enhanced saucer lights, etc.) Unlike the prism board which new ran about $300 or so AFAIR new our board is very simple and has a very low cost. Being usb it's not tied to a bus technology and the interface can easily be changed to future standards if need be. We will allow users to buy extras and they will most likely be less than $100.
Kenbo, there will be a drop-in complete solution regardless of what we decide to do with the case issue. There will also be an a la carte option for people who want to save money or come up with their own solutions for certain components.
Jazman, our goal was to do as much as we could in software but we always knew there would be some hardware component. I think everyone will agree we did very well. There was one thing we could not do in software and maintain stability. I won't go into all the technical reasons but trust me we tried. So the custom hardware will use a usb interface to connect to the host. Since we had to build this board we took it a step further and added a hardware interface to it so we could later expand the system with mods (physical knocker, enhanced saucer lights, etc.) Unlike the prism board which new ran about $300 or so AFAIR new our board is very simple and has a very low cost. Being usb it's not tied to a bus technology and the interface can easily be changed to future standards if need be. We will allow users to buy extras and they will most likely be less than $100.