The IEC to Ethernet adapter is my idea. I would have posted here sooner but I didn't know this forum existed.
Progress has been glacial at best due to my suboptimal mental state. I can't afford the meds that let me think properly, being forced by my HMO to settle for something a lot cheaper and less effective; so I can't hold the whole project in my head at once, which in turn means I have a terrible time trying to figure out what I'm doing on any given part of it.
If anyone wants to help with it I'd be grateful. Basically I just need someone I can bounce ideas off of at high frequency. Jim Brain has been great about helping, but he's got a lot of other projects to worry about and I don't want to be bothering him all the time. (It'd've been OK if only our rates of progress were fewer orders of magnitude apart.)
It should be pretty cheap to make. How cheap is a bit of a mystery to me though. How cheaply can a lot of around 50 PCBs with not much on them be made? basically the only components to be soldered on would be two jumper post blocks, a PLA or microcontroller, and a power connector. (Maybe a despiking capacitor and a clock crystal too, depending on the needs of the design.) One jumper post block would plug into the µIEC board, the other to the Ethernet assembly. Jim found some good ones -- see
http://www.wiznet.co.kr/en/ for more details. I'm thinking it should be possible to sell a finished product for US$40 or so, maybe less.
I welcome any and all feedback on this.