It would be great if you could make cloud base enterprise version, focus on security at rest and security in transit and license it as a yearly subscription then use your profit to develop a secure, sleek and motdern hardware to take advantage of your cloud solution. This looks very promising, keep up the great job.
So buying 1000 hour for $147 equates to $3.52 a day PER printer, if a printer is running automatically constantly, on top of the $40 a month Looks great and I'll try it but I'll be surprised if anyone with a farm will chose your solution over octoprint with this pricing structure.
If you're running 24/7 then I would suggest looking at power slots instead of hours. Power slots enable unlimited printing on any printer, and they start at $30/month which equates to $1 per day per slot. Hours are intended to be a buffer for farms with intermittent or highly variable printing schedules.
I agree with the raspberry pi thing totally. It's overpowered for the task but there's nothing under it that's powerful enough to just sleep and wakeup long enough to report information. The esp32 is close but not there yet. Extensa is too cheap to pay for more fp blocks when they tape out the hardware updates and there's lots of wiggle room being it's on the 28nm node. The same node the 1080ti used and many other still mighty powerful in their own right products.
The nice thing about the Pis being overpowered is that instead of people needing to buy more Pis, we can just make the Pi able to control more printers. We can currently run 2 printers and 2 webcams from a single 2GB Pi4, but some preliminary tests with performance improvements are showing we will probably be able to double that to 4 and 4 in the future.
It would be great if you could make cloud base enterprise version, focus on security at rest and security in transit and license it as a yearly subscription then use your profit to develop a secure, sleek and motdern hardware to take advantage of your cloud solution. This looks very promising, keep up the great job.
This is locally run and there is an enterprise version. There are both subscription and lifetime options.
So buying 1000 hour for $147 equates to $3.52 a day PER printer, if a printer is running automatically constantly, on top of the $40 a month
Looks great and I'll try it but I'll be surprised if anyone with a farm will chose your solution over octoprint with this pricing structure.
If you're running 24/7 then I would suggest looking at power slots instead of hours. Power slots enable unlimited printing on any printer, and they start at $30/month which equates to $1 per day per slot. Hours are intended to be a buffer for farms with intermittent or highly variable printing schedules.
I agree with the raspberry pi thing totally. It's overpowered for the task but there's nothing under it that's powerful enough to just sleep and wakeup long enough to report information. The esp32 is close but not there yet. Extensa is too cheap to pay for more fp blocks when they tape out the hardware updates and there's lots of wiggle room being it's on the 28nm node. The same node the 1080ti used and many other still mighty powerful in their own right products.
The nice thing about the Pis being overpowered is that instead of people needing to buy more Pis, we can just make the Pi able to control more printers. We can currently run 2 printers and 2 webcams from a single 2GB Pi4, but some preliminary tests with performance improvements are showing we will probably be able to double that to 4 and 4 in the future.
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