[sdiy] FPE prices = HOLY SMOKES

[Aaron Lanterman]

I finally got around to hitting the little "$" symbol. Goodness  
gracious!

Preamp & envelope detector panel: $41.23
Lowpass gate panel: $51.69 (and the Easel has two of these)
Envelope generator panel $58.08
Pulser & inverter panel: $72.65

That's $265 in front panel stuff, and I still haven't done front panel  
layouts for the balanced modulator and the timbre circuit. And I've  
only barely started on the PCB layouts for the random generator and  
the sequencer, and I haven't started the oscillators yet. So that's  
another 6 more panels, eventually.

I may have to rethink this...

The infill is around $15 each. Maybe I should give up on doing the  
blue infill on aluminum, and just go for a painted panel of some color  
with the raw stuff underneath.

Or maybe I should try doing the infill myself - someone in an e-mail  
to me mentioned something about a lacquer pen or brush or something  
like that, but I can't seem to find that e-mail now.

Or maybe I should just have FPE do the drilling, and I should try the  
lazertran thing.

Or maybe I should think about all the time I'll spend screwing up the  
lazertran (and come to think of it I don't have a color printer), and  
save up and go for FPE and just have them do it right.

- Aaron