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It would be so much more friendly to have a functional UI hosted locally on the device and to serve updates and optionally populate additional functionality from the web. If your web offering is good enough, most people would have no problem with this setup; it satisfies everyone's needs. If they don't want it to connect out, they just block external connections from this device.

way more expensive to put all that processing power inside each cutter though

The founder has said it would be on the order of a few hundred dollars, which is less than the cost of any of the add on packages.

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