Quote from: akaCash on February 23, 2014, 02:43:58 PM

Sounds like an excellent idea. I could absolutely see a market for this. For pricing, I'd build them to be able to work with 'x' amount of machines for 'x' amount of money. Purely examples, but maybe like 0.1 BTC for up to each 5 machines. So if you had up to 5 machines/rigs going you coudl grab that. Then if you had say 8 or 9 rigs, you'd get the 10 machine/rig model for maybe 0.195 BTC and so-on. Obviously you'd have your own pricing based on actual cost of parts and labor, but I definitely think you would find a welcoming market for any kind of remote control/monitoring devices for that matter. Good luck with it though, hope you get it up and going.

Well, the price of a reed relay is close to 1 dollar, for 8 computers it needs at least 18 pieces. There are also other parts to consider, like the board, microcontrollers, cables, box, usb connector, jumpers. The cost of manufacturing the minimum 8 computers controller would be higher than 0.1 BTC at the price of BTC now. I am not including the labor though .. We will see what is the price it comes at. Of course as you add another 8 computers to the same device, the price would go lower per computer. It will not reach though hundreds of dollars that you need in electrical devices to control 16 computers total though.

Thanks for your input !