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Seon Rozenblum is a hard working Australian maker and it's worth supporting him by purchasing his TinyPico.
by andrewstuart 5y ago
Seon Rozenblum is a hard working Australian maker and it's worth supporting him by purchasing his TinyPico.
- bigtones 5y agoAwesome project !
- AutoFlagged001 5y agoHe's actually Jewish. Based in Australia, though.
- mrlonglong 5y agoWhat exactly does his religion have to do with this discussion? It is irrelevant!
- AutoFlagged001 5y agoI wasn't talking about his religion. He's ethnically Jewish.
- dang 5y ago"Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead." a.k.a. please don't feed the trolls https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- unmole 5y agoWhy is his nationality relevant to the discussion?
- mrlonglong 5y agoIt isn't either !
- MrBuddyCasino 5y agoIt is a fantastic board. If it was cheaper (and had 16MB variants), I'd use it exlcusively. But regular ESP32 boards are 3-4€ on Aliexpress, so I can't justify it.
- seonr 5y agoEspressif don't make a 16MB variant of the D4, and because the Flash is in the SiP, external flash can't be used. sorry :(
- MrBuddyCasino 5y agoAren't there 16MB variants of the S3? Plus the built-in USB OTG would be a good fit for the Pico.
- seonr 5y agoThe S3 is not out yet, not even close. My FeatherS2 has 16MB of flash and 8MB of PSRAM, and that has native USB. My TinyS2 has 4MB Flash and 2MB PSRAM and native USB and is the TinyPICO form factor. The ESP32-S3 for a "TinyPICO" form factor board will never come with more than 4MB of internal flash and external flash wont fit on a TinyPICO sized board. I'll have a FeatherS3 and ProS3 out as soon as he ESP32-S3 is released. https://feathers2.io https://feathers2.io https://tinys2.io https://tinys2.io
- intpx 5y agohis livestreams have taught me more about board design than anything else. also, this is an incredibly well documented board, as he livestreamed much of it and opensourced everything
- woofie11 5y agoFolks would be more likely to do so if there were a visible way to do so. I suspect they'll lose many people that way, since it's not clear the thing is even for sale unless you stumble upon it somehow. Is this an open source make-your-own-board thing where I get a BoM and CAD files? A buyable product? It's not clear at all from the site design. Disclaimer: The design is responsive. It disappears at lower screen widths. There's a subtle menu in the top-right, and the bottom of the menu hides the "buy" button. It's fine if you're running a full-screen browser window on a desktop.
- canadianfella 5y agoMenu. Buy. Pretty easy to figure that one out.
- seonr 5y agoThanks for your feedback - I dislike "pushing" the buy button, but you are right that it's hard to find on mobile, so I have added a [Buy a TinyPICO] and [Buy a TinyPICO Nano] button in the main body of each respective page. Cheers :)
- woofie11 5y agoThank you! I dislike pushing "buy" too, but I like being able to find it, or at least knowing it's for sale. Most people coming in will have no idea. Two more proposed changes: 1) "Getting started" presumes I have a device. I don't. That's obnoxious. The first step in getting started is buying a device (or, for other projects, ordering a PCB and a BoM, or otherwise). The first thing I want to know is: - Is it for sale, or do I build it myself? - What should I buy? Nano? Normal? Do I want any accessories? - Where should I buy it? 2) In your github repos, you link to a store. It'd be nice if you said what you were selling in the lik "Or by buying the TinyPCIO or one of our other products on tindie or our own shop." This clearly contrasts with e.g. selling t-shirts and swag, build kits, or otherwise. And yes, many open source projects support themselves in part by selling unrelated swag.
- throwaway81523 5y agoAdafruit sells these, a good source if you're in the US and I think they do ship internationally.