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Well, I have a whole startup whose flagship hardware is based on web servers on microcontrollers, and our build costs and iteration times are trivial compared t
by contingencies 7y ago
Well, I have a whole startup whose flagship hardware is based on web servers on microcontrollers, and our build costs and iteration times are trivial compared to our competitors.
Microcontrollers: cheap, reliable hardware. Web: cheap, reliable interface. Web programmers: cheap, numerous.
What's not to love?
You said yourself: minimally proficient C/Cpp devs are genuinely hard to find. HTTP GET with the program. ;)
- baybal2 7y agoOh no... Don't tell me you are also on this train... Seriously, you want your noodle vending machines to run a web server on an MCUs? I can't wait to see how eval escape will look on a vending machine. Well, at least now you know whom to call when they will break =D
- contingencies 7y agoHeh, there's no way we'd expose that kind of interface, it's just internal plumbing. BTW we prefer the term service location to highlight the fact custom personalized meals are cooked direct from fresh ingredients within the machines, not simply 'dispensed' or 'vended' as "vending machines" as a concept has too many negative associations / too much cultural baggage.