opus7: add a note on cost of TLS - tgtimes - The Gopher Times
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HTML Author: Josuah Demangeon <me@josuah.net>
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 produced
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,