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Fix a FirefoxOS bug, get a free APC
- bloopletech 13y agoThese look nice, but what makes them any better than a Raspberry PI? I'm probably missing something, but it looks like it has the same inputs/outputs as a PI, but with only 720p output (as opposed to the 1920x1080 of a PI). The form factor looks to be larger and the PCB looks a lot more complicated. And it's $30 more expensive?
- awda 13y agoHurray, for $300 in labor you get a free $60 computer!
- dpeck 13y agoLooking at these bugs, $300 is a gross underestimate. But realistically, you probably aren't doing this for the reward and you likely already have an APC to care enough to do the dev work anyway.
- deelowe 13y agoLooks like: Arm A9 4GB of onboard flash Audio In VGA
- ackfoo 13y agoWhat on Earth would I do with an armored personnel carrier?
- vault_ 13y agoI was expecting a power strip: http://www.apc.com/ http://www.apc.com/
- whitehat2k9 13y agoDrive around Chicago's South Side.
- nhebb 13y agoAPC is also a type of colon cancer [1]. So fix a bug, get a free armored personnel carrier sounds a whole lot better than fix a bug, get free ass cancer. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenomatous_polyposis_coli http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenomatous_polyposis_coli
- jdiez17 13y agoWhat on Earth WOULDN'T you do with an armored personnel carrier?
- epochwolf 13y agoBoating. Unless it's an amphibious model.
- eterm 13y agoEven after reading the whole site I still can't work out what APC is and every time I read it in their copy I'm thinking of exactly this.
- applecore 13y agoI was thinking denim. http://apc.fr http://apc.fr
- bcx 13y agoA lot of these seem like bugs/features related to APC working with FirefoxOS, so you might need an APC just to know you've solved the issue. "Buy an APC, Fix Bugs in OS, Your second APC is free"
- ghayes 13y agoHere's the list of Free APC issues: https://github.com/apc-io/apc-firefox-os/issues?labels=Free+APC&page=1&state=open https://github.com/apc-io/apc-firefox-os/issues?labels=Free+... Some of these might qualify as features rather than 'Bugs'. E.g. Make video acceleration work in hardware[1] [1] https://github.com/apc-io/apc-firefox-os/issues/5 https://github.com/apc-io/apc-firefox-os/issues/5
- mineo 13y agoThat was my thought as well after seeing the list of Free APC bugs. I can see why they'd want to limit the number of bugs that you can get free hardware for (to avoid trivial pull requests like fixing spelling mistakes etc.), but there should be a few bugs between the low hanging fruit and the ones you need the actual hardware for.
- Sir_Cmpwn 13y agoThe bug list [1] doesn't look that tough. Seems like a great way to grab more contributors. [1] https://github.com/apc-io/apc-firefox-os/issues?labels=Free+APC&page=1&state=open https://github.com/apc-io/apc-firefox-os/issues?labels=Free+...
- telephonetemp 13y ago>APC Paper, APC Rock, APC 8750 These guys have a broken naming scheme. How do their devices compare to the $45 BeagleBone Black?
- TheCraiggers 13y agoHell, how do they compare to a $35 RaspberryPi? Not very favorably, in my opinion. They both have the same amount of RAM, and pretty similar CPUs, but at least the Pi can output video at 1080p. The APC maxes out at 720p. Also, for a computer supposedly built with "awareness that the purpose of a computer is to connect to the Internet", I find the lack of built-in WiFi surprising.
- fvrghl 13y agoIs anyone else getting an `Error 404 - Not Found`?
- mrbill 13y agoI bought a couple of the original APC 8750s when they came out. "Meh." Fiddled with one, the other is still in the original box. My RPi units get a lot more use.