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Michael and Liana I love what you are doing and the intersection of electronics hardware and e-commerce. Some background: Hi I’m Marcus. I’ve previously starte
by schappim 8y ago
Michael and Liana I love what you are doing and the intersection of electronics hardware and e-commerce.
Some background: Hi I’m Marcus. I’ve previously started an IoT company and have just made & patented some WebUSB Shipping Scales and a seperate WebUSB Label Printer (primarily for e-commerce. E.g. creating shipping consignment labels directly from Shopify and other platforms).
We made our own hardware to automate our electronics components e-commerce business and now are looking to share it with others.
Whilst my company sells sensors including the load cells found in scales, we found it way easier to go to China and mod an existing scale, really just switching out the electronics for our own.
I’m wondering what path you took with regards to the electronics.
Are the insides a mash of Sparkfun and Adafruit parts?
How did you came to the decision that 3D printing was worth it even for an MVP?
Just out of interest, what wifi module are you using ? I’m guessing an ESPXXXX?
We skipped wifi because our solution had to be idiot proof. Think the difficulty in making a process that would enable your grand parent connect the scale to wifi... I’ve been there, and it still somewhat sucks with cheap wifi modules.
Have you considered HomeKit?
I wonder at what point other technologies like cellular would make sense.
Sorry for all the questions!
Written on a phone. Excuse the typos.