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@Linux_in_a_Bit hey agree with preferring hard lines controls it's just that cost ain't it. here's a random bluetooth chip i found off of mouser: https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/u-blox/ANNA-B112-02B?qs=By6Nw2ByBD23Yj7O3bb2RA%3D%3D for about ten dollars.

if you consider a keyboard matrix--which is about one dollar per switch--then each one of those switches has to be read it into a pin on the microchip. just a couple of buttons you've already reached the point where the bluetooth radio is significantly easier to wire. as an added bonus you don't have to cut out space for the switches, do plastic molds for the buttons. to say nothing of if there is some kind of LCD display to give some kind of user feedback all of which you could just shunt to the bluetooth.

LCDs can be another ten dollars or more depending on how many pixels you want to show, and then you have to cut out space for the thing, and then you have to have somebody actually physically put it in there during assembly, only some of this can be automated by machines, and you quickly end up in a situation where using the bluetooth actually makes it much cheaper to manufacture the physical goods.

software engineers are also a lot cheaper than hardware engineers because the cost of it a rating on software is significantly lower and you can always just get some shitty web dead to cram the interface together and electron and shouted on the google play store where you have to download a two hundred megabyte monstrosity just to use your toaster oven.

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