Certainly a cool idea, and I hope it succeeds and turns out to be what it seems.
No price listed on their crowd fund page, so who can say what this might cost? Uses a Raspberry Pi Zero W for the brains and a STM32 for the cartridge board.
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While I understand why are they unwilling to allow commercial usage of the final product, it also makes it difficult to actually put in the hands of people. I agree, hopefully they can reconsider for a later iteration.
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Unless you’re printing receipts in A4 width or some shit, who the hell wants to print on roll paper
Because it van print A4 ans A3 without too much mechanics
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Aren’t printers pretty restricted due to needing to have surveillance and anti-counterfeit features? Is this legal at scale?
I don't actually know but I imagine it's all voluntary. It seems like kind of an endless tail chase to constantly limit anything that could feasible be used to commit a crime. Actual counterfeiting with any success requires some pretty specialized shit. Honestly if this printer could be configured to meet those specifics them more power to them. End of the day though I wouldn't imagine this being the gateway to massive expansions in the counterfeit market.
Still doesn't atop them from regulating 3d printers like crazy
Those regulations are silly. It doesn't stop you from using your 3D printer to print a 3D printer that has no restrictions
Yeah I guess there's no accounting for the power of neophobia.
I should clarify, it’s more of a justification for tracking features and market protectionism (like allowing only 4 brands of printer) than an actual issue.
Yeah I was thinking about that. Like, these companies probably have some number of government contracts and those contracts give latitude to make some interesting demands.
The counterfeit features from my understanding are just matching one simple dot pattern. That could be included in the firmware here as well.
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License is extremely sus
I'm waiting for a machine to appear with an operating system with an source code, it would be funny
I'm interested. Any info on how much it will cost?
Not yet hopefully soon