hmm they claim it's open source but their repo:
This organization has no public repositories.
I'd advise against preordering unless you understand and you're ok with taking the leap of faith that is tied with preorders~
They state the code will be released after the first orders ship, which makes a certain kind of sense given this is a competitive space suddenly.
Though, I 10000% agree that there's no reason to take a leap of faith when you can just wait like, uh, a month, and see what they do after release. It's not like they won't still be selling these or something.
Hm, good of you to point out. I hope and assume they will post the code for this as soon as they launch this.
People who received early units like reviewers already got access to all the repos, they said they’re preparing them for making them public and will do so before/just as first units start shipping
First project created, only want $50k, delivery is basically as soon as the project ends.
I would be surprised if the backers of this project receive anything.
While I have a personal general rule against backing electronics on Kickstarter and would likely wait for it to be available at retail, I wouldn't necessarily immediately discount this one.
It's probably worth noting - mentioned in Jeff Geerling's video - they had a MOQ of 1500 on the metal case, which likely forced them to be significantly further through the process than a lot of Kickstarters are at launch.
In his article Jeff said:
They add a copper plating, and give it a polished gunmetal grey finish.
Apparently to do all that, they had to order a batch of 5,000 cases, which I hope means they also have a ton of these ready to go.
I'd be very surprised if this was some sort of sham. At least both Jeff Geerling and Raid Owl have posted about getting these; though like sent to them without them backing them directly.
I'm not saying it's a scam necessarily, but the schedule and budget seem optimistic enough to make me question wether the folks running it have any prior experience with manufacturing.
BuildJet is a YCombinator backed startup with a ton of attention, and a million extra to burn on top of what investors have already given them. They would have to royally fuck this up at this point, most people would be so lucky to have the opportunity they have here.
Jeff Geerling and Craft Computing have recently reviewer these units on YouTube and they're fairly optimistic about them.
No way it will cost $ 69.
See for example PiKVM prices.
It is based on completely different hardware. A Raspberry Pi CPU is much more expensive than the CPU that is used here.
NanoKVM is going for around $50
yeah, but it'll be hard to make those Y Combinator vultures rich at that price
We really need to get past the 1080p barrier. AFAICS there is one economical KVM solution for that, and several costly enterprise kits. Surely the actual hardware cost/difference per-unit would be quite small now?
Why? Even 1080p is more than what is usually needed for such a KVM solution. It is not like this is meant for doing remote work on a computer or anything like that.
Because sometimes I would rather things be slow than blurry, and my workstation monitor is >1080p.
You aren't supposed to do serious work over these things. They should be a last resort imo.
I Need a device like this that I can buy through an actual store, as I need to buy them for my office. Do you know any?
It does not even matter if it has ip connection, just usb is fine, but i need to be able to buy it from an "official" source.
I backed so I'll see what happens.
Yes. I'm excited to try it out :)
OK, I've read the wiki entry but I still don't understand what KVM is, or why it's needed. The last time I visited a data center - every server rack came with a laptop-esque looking control unit. What problem does KVM comes to solve? What does this invention improve upon a traditional KVM?
This is not the invention of an IP KVM, those are old. This product just offers the functionality of an IP KVM for very little money.
It lets you remotely control a server as if you were sitting in front of a screen and keyboard directly attached to it.
Afaik this is for servers without a built-in KVM like e.g. self built servers or repurposed workstations.
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