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I've been searching for RPi's in this formfactor and with protected I/O for a while. Besides your product I found some others but all suffer from the same drawb
by aequitas 7y ago
I've been searching for RPi's in this formfactor and with protected I/O for a while. Besides your product I found some others but all suffer from the same drawback (for me at least), which is the price. I can understand there is some extra cost involved in the certification of these devices, eMMC and such. Most industry customers will probably find the price resonable even. But for me as hobbyist I can't justify it to myself if I could buy a handful of 'normal' pi's instead (solving the DIN mounting problem using zip ties).
Do you think your company might develop a non-industrial line for hobbyists which could bring the price more into the range of sub $100?
- Accujack 7y agoI could see them potentially selling just the bare motherboard to hobbyists in non certified form. However, they might not since that's the main product, along with the I/O expansion modules and the software that drives all of this. To make the motherboard useful that software would probably be needed. $360 is cheap if this system does what is claimed. Sub $100 is probably not realistic given what is involved with being truly industrial grade - the level of protection from the environment and reliability alone would require raising the price beyond that. There's a big difference between an "Industrial Pi Case with a DIN mount" and a certified Industrial Pi PLC. This seems to be the latter.
- l1k 7y agoI'm just a kernel dev, not a product manager, but I think a sub $100 product is very unlikely I'm afraid. There are volume discounts though for customers ordering large quantities. Otherwise Accujack's answer is spot on.