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My CHIP still not delivered. They re-scheduled 3 times the delivery. The last was 3 Oct. Today I received the "happy" news this will be shipped at the beginning

by aquarin 10y ago

My CHIP still not delivered. They re-scheduled 3 times the delivery. The last was 3 Oct. Today I received the "happy" news this will be shipped at the beginning of Nov. The initial shipment was June when I ordered in March.

jmcneill 10y ago
Ditto. I had planned on porting FreeBSD to it, but with all of the delays and more interesting boards coming out since it was announced, I've lost all interest at this point.
- Beltiras 10y ago
  Share the more interesting boards please because I am salivating over the pricepoint and features of this one.
  - StavrosK 10y ago
    It does look pretty damn amazing for $16, and it's SMD-ready.
- onli 10y ago
  I got mine, ordered not in the kickstarter but later, arrived on time. Since then I did not really use it, so far other stuff to do and my existing ARM homeserver is working just fine. If you can use it do to some serious work like porting stuff to it, I'd at least lend it to you. Send me an mail (in profile), I'm in Europe.
RBerenguel 10y ago
I ordered a TextBlade (small-form factor bluetooth keyboard with pretty nifty technology) on March 2015 for delivery on June 2015 (not a Kickstarter, mind you) and I'm still waiting (actually all purchasers are, except for a beta testing group).
- aquarin 10y ago
  Actually, I did not participated in the Kikstarter campaign, but I purchased from the web site. So, my assumption is that if the company is trying to do regular business it must act like regular business.
  - stestagg 10y ago
    I got burned by that too (CST-01 website order). The rule of thumb seems to be if they did a kickstarter, don't touch the company in any way till there's proof that a significant % of the backers actually have the product in their hands.
- afandian 10y ago
  I was thinking of buying one recently but couldn't find any reviews on YouTube which seemed suspect. Do you expect to ever get it?
  - MaggieL 10y ago
    I have one Chip and one PocketChip as a backer; my lifepartner has another PocketChip. Last February I preordered five Chips (the max) and another PocketChip. My understanding is that it's actually the PocketChip that holding up shipping my order. If you're interested in activity from users, https://bbs.nextthing.co/ https://bbs.nextthing.co/ is the place to go. I did a presso at a Scala conference back in February about using Scala on Chip, you can view the deck here: https://goo.gl/2t5hBX https://goo.gl/2t5hBX I was an early order of TextBlade too, cancelled after waiting a year for a device that was supposed to be in production and ready to ship. I got tired of letting people hold my money who wouldn't tell me the truth. The TextBlade forum is now being purged of anybody who complains; having originally created a "Rants" section, ranting is no loner allowed. For uncensored information, go to the TextBlade Reddit. The TextBade mobile app, required for firmware updates and adavanced keyboard mapping has been in the iOS app store since last December (it's needed to be a beta user). Only mock-ups (at best; the video could well be fake) of the Android app have been shown; previously WayTools said they would not begin development on Android until after they started shipping product. They basic attitude has been that they don't give a crap about Android users but like their money.
fit2rule 10y ago
Hang in there, this is par for the course with a lot of these boot-up hardware projects, the guys behind CHIP are not yet mass-market vendors of these things, it is always bumpy for first adopters of this brave new world of quaint hardware .. That said, I have my PocketCHIP. It is a great little Linux box, the perfect thing to .. indeed .. stick a pencil in, ssh into, and use .. well, like .. any other Linux workstation .. like, omfg, could this actually BE a decent Linux desktop? Answer, immfo, is this: YES! Worth the wait!

by aquarin 10y ago

jmcneill 10y ago

Ditto. I had planned on porting FreeBSD to it, but with all of the delays and more interesting boards coming out since it was announced, I've lost all interest at this point.

Beltiras 10y ago
Share the more interesting boards please because I am salivating over the pricepoint and features of this one.
- StavrosK 10y ago
  It does look pretty damn amazing for $16, and it's SMD-ready.
onli 10y ago
I got mine, ordered not in the kickstarter but later, arrived on time. Since then I did not really use it, so far other stuff to do and my existing ARM homeserver is working just fine. If you can use it do to some serious work like porting stuff to it, I'd at least lend it to you. Send me an mail (in profile), I'm in Europe.

RBerenguel 10y ago

I ordered a TextBlade (small-form factor bluetooth keyboard with pretty nifty technology) on March 2015 for delivery on June 2015 (not a Kickstarter, mind you) and I'm still waiting (actually all purchasers are, except for a beta testing group).

aquarin 10y ago
Actually, I did not participated in the Kikstarter campaign, but I purchased from the web site. So, my assumption is that if the company is trying to do regular business it must act like regular business.
- stestagg 10y ago
  I got burned by that too (CST-01 website order). The rule of thumb seems to be if they did a kickstarter, don't touch the company in any way till there's proof that a significant % of the backers actually have the product in their hands.
afandian 10y ago
I was thinking of buying one recently but couldn't find any reviews on YouTube which seemed suspect. Do you expect to ever get it?
- MaggieL 10y ago
  I have one Chip and one PocketChip as a backer; my lifepartner has another PocketChip. Last February I preordered five Chips (the max) and another PocketChip. My understanding is that it's actually the PocketChip that holding up shipping my order. If you're interested in activity from users, https://bbs.nextthing.co/ https://bbs.nextthing.co/ is the place to go. I did a presso at a Scala conference back in February about using Scala on Chip, you can view the deck here: https://goo.gl/2t5hBX https://goo.gl/2t5hBX I was an early order of TextBlade too, cancelled after waiting a year for a device that was supposed to be in production and ready to ship. I got tired of letting people hold my money who wouldn't tell me the truth. The TextBlade forum is now being purged of anybody who complains; having originally created a "Rants" section, ranting is no loner allowed. For uncensored information, go to the TextBlade Reddit. The TextBade mobile app, required for firmware updates and adavanced keyboard mapping has been in the iOS app store since last December (it's needed to be a beta user). Only mock-ups (at best; the video could well be fake) of the Android app have been shown; previously WayTools said they would not begin development on Android until after they started shipping product. They basic attitude has been that they don't give a crap about Android users but like their money.

fit2rule 10y ago

Hang in there, this is par for the course with a lot of these boot-up hardware projects, the guys behind CHIP are not yet mass-market vendors of these things, it is always bumpy for first adopters of this brave new world of quaint hardware .. That said, I have my PocketCHIP. It is a great little Linux box, the perfect thing to .. indeed .. stick a pencil in, ssh into, and use .. well, like .. any other Linux workstation .. like, omfg, could this actually BE a decent Linux desktop? Answer, immfo, is this: YES! Worth the wait!