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Originally Posted by Tymbrymi
I'm not going to tell anyone that it can't be done, but it would take probably greater than $20k to get something that would work even reasonably well (a million dollars is WAAAY too high though).
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In the real world, $20 would cover about one man-month of engineering time. That might be enough time to prepare a conceptual study and come up with a preliminary estimate for the detailed design cost. Just the engineering (design only, not software) would cost several $100K, before any hardware is built. A million dollars is a pretty small project, if you are talking about anything that will go into production. You might be able to cobble something together yourself for $20K, if you don't count your time; and it might even run.