paulofisch

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by paulofisch 7y ago
Making your own Stephenson Screen seems like one of the better uses of a 3D printer I've seen :) https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:83969
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by paulofisch 10y ago
Dealing with PJRC, by contrast, has been basically frictionless :-) Lovely fella too when I bumped into him at BAMF.
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by paulofisch 13y ago
The main touchy-feely moment for me here is that a notoriously closed, $17-billion company was brought around by a friendly, gentle approach to convincing it to be more open. Group hug for Broadcom.
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by paulofisch 14y ago
A kid being able to save for and buy a computer that is all their own is a good experience for getting them enthused about learning with it. The board is just a tool though. The real strength will be in creating a common experience and spec
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by paulofisch 14y ago
The education stuff will hit in September when the new term starts. Right now everyone is in the process of creating materials to teach, getting the units out there and making sure teachers have the knowledge they need to get started. Raspb
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by paulofisch 14y ago
As you wish http://www.flickr.com/photos/82849540@N05/sets/7215763062822...
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by paulofisch 14y ago
We're always open to ideas and a chat :) Mail us at sales [at] pi mo ro ni .com. And thanks :-)
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by paulofisch 14y ago
Entirely depends on how well we do with this one. We hope to release something more, um, tasteful in the future. We started with the loud/retro/child-magnet case to start with to make a bit of a splash and make a statement about doing thing
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by paulofisch 14y ago
Making 4000 units a day and still not meeting demand is a nice problem to have, frustrating as it is for a lot of people.
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by paulofisch 14y ago
There are gaps in there for airflow around the ports and through the case over the chip and power. We've run it for 24 hours and it the result was it got warm on the bottom, so we've added bottom vents to the design which exhaust around the
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by paulofisch 14y ago
Orders up to 1000: within 3 weeks. Above that: As fast as we can make and ship 'em, we're happy we can ramp up to hundreds a week fairly quickly.
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by paulofisch 14y ago
Right here: http://canada.newark.com/raspberry-pi/raspbrry-pcba/raspberr...
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by paulofisch 14y ago
Oops. Must use 'enclosure' more often. The "what do I do with it?" Is a common question. We're working on making the answer easy for everyone :)
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by paulofisch 14y ago
Coda has been getting long in the tooth for a while (and is still my daily web-dev buddy). It's nice to see Panic coming out all guns blazing with the new hotness. Software I actively enjoy paying for. The pun in the iPad version name is a
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by paulofisch 14y ago
Even accounting for VAT@20% this is still a £9 price increase over the US price. It's not that hard to put the 'u' back in color.
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by paulofisch 14y ago
Even better, it comes with Cloud9 IDE and node.js running by default, so can just power it up, point a browser to it, and get hacking. http://c9.io/ It's a nice touch.
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by paulofisch 15y ago
Good to know. Will look forward to it. I also see you've been firefighting today. Hope it's all been a learning experience, and mostly positive :)
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by paulofisch 15y ago
It looks like there are just some templates for Twitter and Facebook activity right now. I was expecting something a little more interesting than very rigid templates. A basic and friendly tool really. That may come in the future. For now i
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Visual.ly opens it's doors for infographic creation.(create.visual.ly)
39 points by paulofisch 15y ago|15 comments
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by paulofisch 15y ago
The links going to http://i-wish-it-was-true.com/ are not encouraging for the veracity of the story :-) What gives? Hoax? Thought piece?
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by paulofisch 15y ago
As a content owner, if I post my own stuff then I've still given them the right to sell it through the Site/App/Service by these terms. It provides some limits, but not the ones consistent with the service they claim to offer. They can star
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Raspberry Pi launched. RS & Farnell to manufacture under license.
6 points by paulofisch 15y ago|3 comments
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by paulofisch 15y ago
Between the one-per-person limit for the first batch and moving to rolling production fairly quickly, the eBay inflation factor should be cut to a minimum. The first batch of 10000 Model B's will be sold on a first-come-first-served basis.
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by paulofisch 15y ago
That would be pretty damn cool. If it weren't for the army of geeks with internet pitchforks :-)
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by paulofisch 15y ago
From the Raspi Twitter "not allowed to say (arcane contractual stuff)"
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by paulofisch 15y ago
Plans are in place to make the website and announcement, etc accessible under load.
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Raspberry Pi announcement on Wed 29th Feb at 6am GMT(raspberrypi.org)
28 points by paulofisch 15y ago|12 comments
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by paulofisch 15y ago
You'll get plenty of notice on Hacker News. I promise you.
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UK Folding Plug: First commmercial product (Mu, USB) available for pre-order(themu.co.uk)
1 points by paulofisch 15y ago|0 comments
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by paulofisch 15y ago
And the response was: "Yes we are working in partnership with Microsoft to offer you these prices. This deal will stop for new customers at some point." No idea when that might be though.

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