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commit fcf499990d09ef633f4042a251c185bde6eb1515 | |
parent 13007e9a489ea42e64a8febb6b6c6ebb71dcb0b0 | |
Author: Josuah Demangeon <[email protected]> | |
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2023 12:42:43 +0100 | |
opus7: add a note on cost of TLS | |
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@@ -69,6 +69,13 @@ only a small margin for the seller, and eventually lower if … | |
on a larger scale. | |
. | |
.PP | |
+The support of TLS does not bring any cost in this example: an ESP8266 | |
+could be used at around 0.85 USD instead of 1.25 USD for the ESP32-C3, | |
+but is also capable of TLS. | |
+Image decoding would then probably be much slower. | |
+By far the most resource hungry part of this project. | |
+. | |
+.PP | |
Writing the software for such a product from the ground up could take | |
typically an entire week, including JPEG and PNG decoding libraries, | |
image and font rendering, writing driver for all the parts involved, |