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		pbreit on Aug 17, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How I Hacked Amazon’s $5 WiFi Button How cheap could these get? Which would be cheaper, bluetooth or wifi? Amazon obviously can subsidize via product sales.

rm999 on Aug 17, 2015 [–]

Rough bill of materials is probably around 3-5 dollars (I searched online and found low power wifi chips in bulk at around 2-3 dollars). I'd estimate 10-15 dollars after R&D, assembly, packaging, shipping, etc. Does that seem reasonable?

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