Every other solution is a phone app, a Pi on a shelf, a cloud subscription that breaks when the internet does — or a hobbyist project where a GitHub push at 2am takes down your production floor by morning. Someone merges untested code, the auto-update fires, and your line goes blind.
Tech Tonic OS is the first dedicated AI compute device built for production floors — 48 INT8 TOPs of on-device intelligence, 8 live camera feeds with live backups direct from your printers, NOC wall output, 24/7 continuous operation, zero cloud dependency, any printer brand, no monthly fees. Ever.
And no one — not a developer, not a broken CI pipeline — can push an update to your floor without your sign-off.
THIS IS YOUR FARM. ON A WALL. RIGHT NOW.
OctoPrint needs a Pi. Cloud tools need your data and a monthly invoice. Brand-locked apps break whenever the manufacturer feels like it.
Other projects dump a requirements.txt on you and wish you luck — hunting down broken dependencies, manually installing packages,
checking GitHub issues at midnight, praying the latest community update doesn't nuke your setup and take your production floor with it.
Tech Tonic OS needs nothing from anyone else. It ships with its own fully managed package system —
signed, verified, and deployed through our secure repository infrastructure.
No dependency hell. No manual installs. No trawling GitHub to find out why your farm went dark at 3am.
Updates are tested, GPG-signed, and rolled out through mTLS-verified channels to your device on your schedule.
If something breaks, we roll it back. Not you.
A fully self-sovereign, AI-powered, industrial compute platform that runs your farm — floor to ceiling,
24 hours a day, 7 days a week, on hardware committed to your operation until 2036.
No app store. No cloud login. No third-party API that breaks when Bambu pushes a 2am firmware update. Your device. Your OS. Your stack. The only print farm tool that can never be taken away from you.
Bambu, Prusa, Creality, Voron, custom builds — every printer on your floor, unified in one view. The Panda Touch manages 10 Bambu printers. Tech Tonic OS manages your entire operation.
48 INT8 TOPs processes every camera feed locally. No cloud round-trip. No latency. No per-printer fee. After 6 months your model knows your filament brands, your failure signatures. No competitor can replicate that.
Every other tool is bolted to a wall or running on a desk. Tech Tonic OS is in your hand on the floor. You know the state of every machine before you've taken a step toward it.
Rated −30°C to +75°C. TAA and NDAA compliant. 10-year hardware longevity. It passes enterprise IT procurement checklists that eliminate every competing product before the conversation starts.
Cloud tools charge $29–$99/month. That's $1,188/year minimum for software running on hardware you don't own. Tech Tonic OS is one price. The AI, fleet sync, monitoring — all included. Forever.
Automatic Material System management gives your farm intelligent multi-spool control, automatic material switching, and full consumable tracking across every printer on your floor. Pair it with RFID tracking and you have real-time physical visibility of every tagged spool, component, and asset — where it is, who moved it, when it was last used. No spreadsheet. No guesswork. No empty spool surprises mid-print.
Camera feeds don't just monitor — they back up direct from your printers to the M.2 scratch drive in real time. Every angle, every layer, every failure frame. Permanently stored locally. Zero cloud upload. Zero egress bill. Total replay capability.
Plug into any display via DisplayPort 1.4 or HDMI at 4K @ 60Hz. Tech Tonic OS outputs a live NOC wall view — every printer, every job, every AI alert, every camera feed — in real time, no PC required. Your farm runs itself. You just watch it win.
The device is the NOC brain. Mount it behind any monitor, plug in DP 1.4, and your wall is live. No server. No software license. No extra hardware.
Failure detected by the AI engine? Tile flashes instantly. Alert banner fires. Camera frame saves automatically. Discord notification in under 2 seconds. All on-device.
End of shift: auto-generated report — jobs completed, failures logged, material consumed, queue status. Pushed to Discord. Your morning crew knows everything before they arrive.
10, 50, 200 printers. No cap. No tier. The Panda Touch maxes at 10 Bambu printers only. You're playing an entirely different game.
Every print, every failure, every job duration — logged locally to 256GB UFS. No cloud expiry. No storage tier. Your production data stays yours, forever.
Set the queue, walk out. AI monitors every printer, detects bed clears via camera vision, queues the next job automatically, alerts on anything that needs a human. Your farm prints while you sleep.
Obico has watched 80 million hours of printing — in their cloud, on their servers, billed per printer per month. Tech Tonic OS runs inference locally. Your camera feeds never leave your building. Your failure data trains your model. Your AI compounds every day you run it.
The portable unit goes with your operator. The station unit runs the NOC wall, monitors every feed, orchestrates the queue, generates shift reports — while your team is home sleeping. Same OS. Same AI. Same software. Two different jobs.
The device that goes where the operator goes. Full display, battery-powered, rugged. Know the state of every printer before you've walked to it.
Permanently mounted NOC brain. No battery — lower cost, zero degradation. Drives 4K wall display. Runs 24/7 with hardware watchdog and auto-restart.
Complete farm deployment. One NOC wall station. Two operators on the floor. Save $598 on your first fleet order.
OS crash? 30-second reboot. Fleet state restored from persist partition. Monitoring resumes. Operators never know it happened.
Overlayfs keeps root read-only. Bad update, power cut, storage event — none of them brick your device. Clean boot every time.
Sustained 24/7 load managed by active cooling profile and thermal daemon. Alert at 70°C. Graceful clock reduction before shutdown.
Logs write to RAM tmpfs, flushed hourly. Camera frames only write on failure detection. 256GB with 20% reserve means flash outlasts the longevity commitment.
Updates fire at 3am. mTLS-verified, signature-checked, A/B slot. If new build fails to boot, device rolls back automatically. Zero downtime.
Internet down? Farm keeps running. AI monitoring, job queuing, fleet sync, NOC wall — all operate on your local network. No cloud dependency. Ever.
Every print farm software tool — Obico, AstroPrint, OrcaSlicer, Spoolman — is currently homeless. Running on a Pi designed for hobbyists in 2012 with no AI compute, no standardized camera interface, no enterprise security. Tech Tonic OS is the hardware they've always needed. We're opening a verified SDK. The ecosystem comes to us.
80M+ hours of failure data. Currently cloud-only. On our device it runs locally at 48 TOPs — faster, cheaper, private. Their biggest infrastructure cost, eliminated overnight.
Large existing user base, multi-printer support. Give them a proper hardware home instead of a Pi. They bring their users. We bring the compute platform.
A 3.2GHz octa-core with 12GB RAM runs a full slicer natively. Slice on the floor, push to queue without a PC. Nobody does this today. We will.
Open-source filament tracking. Python-based. Material cost in the NOC wall. Every spool, every gram, every job — correlated automatically at zero extra cost.
"When P-07 finishes, start P-03." Runs natively on our compute budget. Not viable on a Pi. On Tech Tonic OS it becomes the automation backbone for your whole operation.
As farms go industrial, SAP, NetSuite, and MES integration become procurement requirements. We're the first print farm hardware that can pass that conversation.
// TO EVERY SOFTWARE PARTNER IN THIS SPACE:
You're building for a Pi designed in 2012 — no AI compute, no camera interface, no enterprise security, no longevity guarantee.
Your users cobble together SD cards and pray the Pi 4 stays in stock.
We built the hardware your software was always supposed to run on.
Port to our platform. We make you the default recommendation for every operator who owns our device.
Revenue share included.
And if your vision aligns with ours —
approved partners can ship their own White Label installation of Tech Tonic OS.
Your brand. Our hardware. Our security. Our ecosystem. Let's talk.
Every other print farm tool gives you monitoring — then charges separately for everything else. Tech Tonic OS ships with a full built-in platform — Filament Guide, Price Calculator, Cloud Models Library, on-device File Converters (SVG→DXF, STL Repair, STL→STEP), Learning Centre with tutorials, and a dedicated Community with real human support. One device. One price. Everything included.
Stop guessing temperature settings, bed adhesion tricks, and enclosure requirements. The built-in Filament Guide covers every major material — PLA, PETG, ABS, ASA, PA, TPU, PC, CF composites and more. Print profiles, drying specs, storage conditions, failure modes, and brand-specific notes — all on-device, no internet required. Your operators get the right settings the first time, every time.
Most farms price by gut feel and find out they're losing money six months later. The built-in Price Calculator factors in filament cost, machine time, electricity, failure rate, operator overhead, and your target margin — producing a real job price in seconds. Quote confidently. Know your numbers. Stop leaving money on the floor. Integrates directly with the Filament Guide for material cost auto-fill.
Upload your print files once. Access them from any device on your fleet — field unit, station unit, anywhere. The Cloud Models Library syncs across your entire operation, with version control, job history per model, material pairings, and print time estimates baked in. Operators pull the right file from the floor, not from a USB drive they left at the other end of the building. Permissions-controlled — operators see what they need to see.
From first print to full farm operator — the built-in Learning Centre gives you step-by-step guides for hardware setup, software configuration, and printer maintenance, all in one place. Comprehensive courses walk you through every aspect of 3D printing mastery: dialling in your first machine, configuring your software stack, running a multi-printer fleet, and keeping everything maintained so downtime stays at zero. Built-in on the device. No internet required. Learn at your own pace on the floor.
Got a design in the wrong format? Need to go from a vector cut file to a printable solid? Tech Tonic OS runs three powerful file converters directly on the device — no PC required, no upload to a cloud service, no waiting for a web tool to process your file. Drop the file in, convert it on the spot, push it to the print queue. Design to print — all on one device, all on the floor.
Every Tech Tonic OS device comes with access to a thriving community of makers and operators — a place to connect with fellow 3D printing enthusiasts and professionals, share your projects and builds, swap tips, troubleshoot together, and grow alongside people who take this craft as seriously as you do. No gatekeeping. No paywalls. Just makers helping makers.
Every Tech Tonic OS device comes with access to a dedicated Help and Support Centre — staffed by people who actually understand print farm operations. Priority escalation for verified owners. Structured ticketing. SLA options for enterprise fleet deployments. When your farm is down, you need answers fast. We built support that delivers them.
No other print farm product ships with this. Filament knowledge. Job pricing. Cloud model access. Comprehensive courses and step-by-step guides. A real maker community. Dedicated human support. All included. One price. No subscriptions. This isn't a device with a few features bolted on. This is the operating system your farm has been waiting for.
Tech Tonic OS is not a closed garden — it is a platform with standards. Approved third-party software can be listed in the verified repo and distributed to the entire device fleet. For partners whose mission genuinely aligns with ours, we go further — full White Label installations of Tech Tonic OS, carrying your brand, your software, your identity, built on the same security architecture, the same 48 TOPs hardware, the same 10-year longevity commitment.
Pass our security and quality review and your software gets listed in the verified repo — pushed directly to every Tech Tonic OS device in the field. No app store gatekeeping. No race to the bottom on pricing. A curated, trusted software channel reaching serious production operators who actually pay for tools that work.
For partners whose mission aligns with ours — full White Label deployment of Tech Tonic OS under your brand identity. Your logo. Your colour scheme. Your software preloaded. Your community. Built on the same Qualcomm QCS8550 hardware, the same security stack, the same 10-year longevity commitment. You get a world-class product to sell. We get a partner who raises the bar for the industry.
OctoPrint, Mainsail, Fluidd, Moonraker, SimplyPrint — we respect what they built. They all run on Tech Tonic OS too, as approved software on our platform. But as a complete farm operating system, here's the honest picture.
| Feature | Tech Tonic OS | Panda Touch | OctoPrint | Mainsail / Fluidd | Moonraker | SimplyPrint | Bambu Farm Mgr | Bambuddy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — Hardware & Platform | ||||||||
| Dedicated Hardware | Purpose-built device | Display accessory | Needs a Pi / PC | Needs a Pi / PC | API layer only | Cloud + any host | Windows PC only | Needs Docker / PC |
| Runs On Tech Tonic OS | Native platform | No | Yes — approved app | Yes — approved app | Yes — approved app | Yes — approved app | No | Yes — approved app |
| Mobile / Field Unit | 10" portable device | Mounted only | Browser on phone | Browser on phone | Browser on phone | App on phone | Desktop only | PWA / browser |
| NOC Wall Output | 4K@60Hz native | No | No | No | No | Dashboard only | No | Browser dashboard |
| 24/7 Station Mode | Dedicated unit | 20–30min battery | Pi always-on | Pi always-on | Pi always-on | Cloud always-on | PC must stay on | Docker always-on |
| — AI & Intelligence | ||||||||
| On-Device AI Compute | 48 INT8 TOPs | None | None | None | None | Cloud AI (Obico) | None | None |
| Camera Ports | 8× MIPI CSI native / RTSP/MJPEG | None | 1× USB via Pi | 1× USB via Pi | 1× USB via Pi | USB via host | None | MJPEG + RTSP + USB |
| Live Camera Backups | Direct from printers · local M.2 | No | No | No | No | No | No | Timelapse only |
| AMS — Automatic Material System | Multi-spool · material switching · tracking | No | No | No | No | No | No | AMS monitoring + slot config |
| RFID Asset Tracking | Real-time floor visibility | No | No | No | No | No | No | AMS RFID re-read |
| AI Failure Detection | On-device, real-time | No | Via Obico plugin | Via Obico plugin | Via Obico plugin | Cloud AI only | No | Via AI toggle (Bambu only) |
| Local AI Model Training | Continuous on-device | No | No | No | No | No — cloud only | No | No |
| — Printer & Fleet | ||||||||
| Any Printer Brand | All brands | Bambu only | Marlin / Klipper | Klipper only | Klipper only | Most brands | Bambu only | Bambu only |
| Printer Count Limit | Unlimited | 10 Bambu only | 1 per instance | 1 per instance | 1 per instance | Tier-limited | Fleet tier only | Unlimited Bambu |
| Fleet Multi-Printer View | Native, all brands | 10 Bambu max | Needs OctoFarm | Needs extra setup | API aggregation | Yes | Bambu only | Yes — Bambu fleet |
| — Platform Features | ||||||||
| Built-in Filament Guide | 100+ materials, offline | No | No | No | No | No | No | Filament profiles + spool tracking |
| Price / Job Calculator | Integrated, on-device | No | No | No | No | Basic cost tracking | No | Cost + electricity tracking |
| Cloud Models Library | Fleet-synced, versioned, W/ Local Manager + Archive Server | No | No | No | No | File upload only | No | Local file manager + 3MF archive |
| Learning Centre | Video + interactive docs | No | Community wiki | Community wiki | Community wiki | Basic guides | No | Docs + guides |
| On-Device File Converters | SVG→DXF · STL Repair · STL→STEP | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Optional M.2 Scratch Slot | NVMe / SATA · user-supplied | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| White Label Available | Yes — approved partners | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| — Security & Enterprise | ||||||||
| 100% Offline Capable | Always | Local network | Yes | Yes | Yes | Cloud required | Cloud dependent | Yes — LAN first |
| mTLS Device Security | Per-device cert + SPU | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Monthly Cost | $0 forever | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $9.99–$99/mo | Free (for now) | Free · open source |
| Industrial Temp Range | −30°C to +75°C | 0°C to 70°C | 0°C to 50°C | 0°C to 50°C | 0°C to 50°C | N/A | N/A | N/A — software only |
| 10yr Longevity | guaranteed | No | Pi risk | Pi risk | Pi risk | Startup risk | Unknown | MIT open source — community dependent |
| NDAA / TAA Compliant | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
// NOTE ON OCTOPRINT, MAINSAIL, FLUIDD, MOONRAKER, SIMPLYPRINT + BAMBUDDY:
These are excellent tools built by talented teams — and most run on Tech Tonic OS as approved platform software.
Bambuddy in particular is impressive software for Bambu Lab fleets with strong print management, AMS monitoring, and spool tracking.
The comparison above is not a dismissal. It is an honest accounting of what each tool is designed to do.
Bambuddy is Bambu-only software running on a PC or Docker host. Tech Tonic OS is brand-agnostic dedicated hardware with on-device AI.
Different tools. Different jobs. Tech Tonic OS is what you run them on — and everything else they can't do.
Powered by the Qualcomm® Dragonwing™ — the same class of silicon driving next-generation AI cameras, drone computing, and industrial edge platforms. This is not a tablet processor. This is an AI weapon in a 33mm package.
The carrier board includes an optional M.2 slot — populate it with any standard NVMe or SATA M.2 drive and you have a high-speed scratch volume for temporary job data, large model libraries, raw camera footage, AI training datasets, and conversion working files that you don't want chewing through your primary 256GB UFS. Pull the drive out when you're done. Take your data with you. Leave nothing behind.
Continuous AI camera recording at 8× feeds generates significant data. Running that through your primary 256GB UFS flash accelerates wear and fills storage fast. The M.2 scratch slot offloads all that to cheap, replaceable commodity hardware. A 1TB NVMe costs under $80 and gives you months of raw footage buffer. When the drive is full — or you're handing a job over — pull it out and hand it to whoever needs it. No network transfer. No upload. Just a drive. And because the data never touches your network, there is no remote extraction vector — no API to breach, no cloud bucket to leak, no upload to intercept. Your footage stays physical until you decide otherwise.
Every device ships with a unique certificate provisioned at manufacture. The Qualcomm Secure Processing Unit keeps the private key hardware-bound and non-extractable. A stolen device is cryptographically useless to any attacker. The entire cloud infrastructure — routing, DDoS protection, database, and API gateway — runs on Cloudflare's Enterprise stack, the same layer protecting Fortune 500s and governments globally.
Rejects every public CA. Accepts only your Tech Tonic root CA. DNS hijack, MITM, fake servers — dead on contact.
Every unit has a unique cert signed by your device CA. An unknown device cannot pull a manifest, period.
The key lives in the Secure Processing Unit. Non-extractable. A compromised device cannot impersonate others.
Software repos are GPG-signed, synced over mTLS at shutdown, verified before install. A compromised server can't push bad packages.
A lost device gets its cert revoked via CRL. That serial can never authenticate again. The rest of your fleet is completely unaffected.
Your device operates locally — but the cloud layer that backs it runs on Cloudflare's Enterprise-grade infrastructure. The manifest server, the model library sync, the fleet telemetry API, the support centre, the community platform — every cloud touchpoint is routed through Cloudflare. That means DDoS protection, zero-trust networking, global edge performance, and enterprise-grade database reliability baked into the foundation — not bolted on as an afterthought.
Cloudflare protects and accelerates over 20% of the internet — including Fortune 500 companies, financial institutions, and government networks. Tech Tonic OS runs its entire cloud layer on the same enterprise tier. When you buy a Tech Tonic OS device, you get Cloudflare-grade infrastructure as part of the package. No extra cost. No separate contract. Built in.
Cloudflare Enterprise provides unmetered DDoS mitigation on all cloud endpoints. Your manifest server, model library, and fleet API cannot be taken offline by a volumetric attack. The farm keeps running no matter what hits the cloud layer — and the device falls back to local cache anyway.
Every internal service is protected by Cloudflare Zero Trust. No service is exposed to the public internet directly. Device authentication flows through Cloudflare Access, verified against your per-device mTLS certificates before a single byte of data moves. Attack surface: essentially zero.
Cloudflare's 300+ global Points of Presence mean your manifest sync, model library downloads, and firmware updates pull from the nearest edge node — not a single origin server. Whether your farm is in Manchester, Memphis, or Melbourne, the performance is the same.
Fleet telemetry, device registrations, model library metadata, and support tickets are stored in Cloudflare D1 — a globally distributed SQLite database running at the edge. No single region failure takes your data down. Replicated. Durable. Queryable from 300+ locations simultaneously.
Your Cloud Models Library and firmware binaries are stored in Cloudflare R2 — S3-compatible object storage with zero egress fees. No bandwidth bills when your fleet pulls a large firmware update or a heavy model file. Scale to 10,000 devices and the storage cost stays flat.
The manifest API, device authentication endpoints, and fleet sync services run on Cloudflare Workers — serverless compute deployed to every edge node globally. Cold start: under 5ms. No servers to patch. No infra to scale. The API is up when you need it and costs nothing when you don't.
// WHY THIS MATTERS FOR YOUR OPERATION:
Most print farm software is running on a $6/month VPS with no DDoS protection, no redundancy, and no SLA.
When their server goes down — and it will — your cloud features go with it.
Tech Tonic OS is built on infrastructure that has never had a significant global outage.
Your device works offline regardless. But when it reaches the cloud,
it reaches Cloudflare. And Cloudflare doesn't go down.
The first dedicated AI compute device built for 3D print farm operators. 48 TOPs on-device. NOC wall ready. 24/7. Any printer. No cloud. No fees. No compromises. No bullshit.
Fleet pricing · 5+ units $1,099 · 10+ units $949 · 25+ units: contact sales · Enterprise SLA available