Augury

When the $240 pilot graduates

The mid-range step — a real industrial accelerometer on an NXP i.MX 8M Plus carrier — and the moment in-house ML stops being cheaper than a vendor service.

Issue 02 ran a $240 edge-ML bench on a 1995 spindle. Issue 03 is the next hop: industrial IEPE accelerometers on an NXP i.MX 8M Plus carrier with a hardware NPU. BOM $2,847, inference latency 4 ms, recall 96%. The build is real. The harder question is when it stops being cheaper than a vendor service like Augury or Sight Machine — and the answer is sharper than I expected.