Andrew, thanks for your thoughts.
Read the whole thread. I have always said that this board will not have Ethernet. But I posed the question, will that limit sales of the board too much, because I suspect that Ethernet will in time become a must-have feature.
To me that's a horrible workaround. I don't want to leave any part of the printer on when I have turned it off. I don't use an ATX power supply. Besides, having to set up and manage a Linux box is unnecessary complexity for novice users.
I am proposing a board that has significantly less functionally than the Duet (in particular, no Ethernet) and would cost around half the price. For computer geeks who would like to use a Linux server to provide the web interface anyway, I would have thought it was a near-ideal solution.
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Just two posts above you argued in favor of including an Ethernet interface and now you are arguing that to save costs this same Ethernet interface should not be included in your new design?
Read the whole thread. I have always said that this board will not have Ethernet. But I posed the question, will that limit sales of the board too much, because I suspect that Ethernet will in time become a must-have feature.
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The small ARM boxes I use as Linux Debian / OctoPrint servers stay on 24/7, their power consumption being approximately the same as the standby power consumption of the ATX PSUs I use for my 3D printers (i.e 2.5W), so as far as "readyness to print after power on" is concerned, they are a non-issue
To me that's a horrible workaround. I don't want to leave any part of the printer on when I have turned it off. I don't use an ATX power supply. Besides, having to set up and manage a Linux box is unnecessary complexity for novice users.
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So far it seems to me that you are planning your new design basically by making small changes to the Duet design, what I am proposing is to think outside the box and do something different.
I am proposing a board that has significantly less functionally than the Duet (in particular, no Ethernet) and would cost around half the price. For computer geeks who would like to use a Linux server to provide the web interface anyway, I would have thought it was a near-ideal solution.
