RE: Arduino-day series - Autonomous robotic arm with Arduino

e14 Contributor — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 21:32:49 GMT

Hi Shabaz,

Thanks for your feedback, I would love to talk to you to learn more about price point and other product needs for makers. I just sent you a contact request, please approve the request so that we can discuss this offline.

Shantanu

Senior Product Marketing Specialist

www.mathworks.com

RE: Arduino-day series - Autonomous robotic arm with Arduino

anujaapte — Sun, 30 Mar 2014 02:45:50 GMT

Thank you for your valuable feedback! It helps us improve our product offerings.

RE: Arduino-day series - Autonomous robotic arm with Arduino

shabaz — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 16:44:25 GMT

Hi Anuja,

We would all like to use MATLAB, but the cost is a little high : (

There is a unique opportunity for MATLAB for the maker community, because it's still virtually an untapped market for simulation tools.

In the UK, the cost to individuals is £102 (including VAT) but then the toolboxes are £30 each, and people could need half a dozen. That's close to £300, which is getting out of reach for many people I'm guessing, since we won't use it daily to get full value for money.

It could put people off even purchasing the base license, because they know they will have to spend more for the useful (for them) toolboxes.

Are you interested in knowing what we feel is a fairer price/bundle? If so, we can provide suggestions/justifications to help you approach the product team with.

To summarize, I think demand for MATLAB would increase to a great extent in this market if the price was reduced or a fairer bundle was available for makers, or for the Element14 community, which are the users that will likely also purchase the commercial license one day (or approach their managers and request budget), since they will then be familiar with it.