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by whiskers 4y ago
It's usually called "Nearest Neighbour"!
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by whiskers 4y ago
Then write about that - that's not the clickbait angle they have gone for. A large chunk of that 36% can be explained by inflation - heck perhaps until now they have been artificially keeping the base price low to capture marketshare -
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by whiskers 4y ago
But they specifically refer to the price of the old model as $329 which doesn't include the keyboard. They are moving the goalposts to try to make this a story. It isn't a story, it's nonsense.
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by whiskers 5y ago
PS4 has sold 117m units (around 1m in the past year) and Switch has sold 104m so far (around 20m in the past year). You can bet Switch will overtake it very soon...
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by whiskers 5y ago
Nintendo Switch has sold 100m+ units - over 20m of which were in the last year. It's by no means obsolete, it just serves a different market than the one you're interested in.
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by whiskers 5y ago
Are you sure it isn’t available in those quantities? I think it should be.
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by whiskers 5y ago
Hah! I never imagined DOOM as a use case when I was designing the Badger 2040 - how foolish of me, in hindsight it's obvious! How far did you get with it? Any video of the end result?
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by whiskers 5y ago
You can shut down power almost entirely with circuitry to trigger a wake from sleep when pressing a button. It's no RTC but a compromise we made to hit the price point and allow for a very long battery life!
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by whiskers 5y ago
Not poking fun at anybody, just some different states that you may choose to display!
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Badger 2040 – Fast updating RP2040 based e-Ink badge(shop.pimoroni.com)
240 points by whiskers 5y ago|62 comments
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by whiskers 5y ago
Plug: we have designed a range of RP2040 based dev boards for different tasks which make prototyping/evaluating the platform a breeze - and it's an exciting platform with what it offers for the price. The PIO especially is an extr
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by whiskers 5y ago
Any idea what "like the ‘every odd pixel is a line’ texture mapping technique" refers to? I can't seem to find a descrition of it anywhere...
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by whiskers 5y ago
Also if you accidentally close/kill your browser window then launching a fresh one and doing Ctrl + Shift + T will reopen all of the tabs you previously had open!
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by whiskers 6y ago
Thanks! We're really proud of it, and it's a heck of a lot of fun too - there's something a bit magic about running an old VGA monitor off this little piece of silicon. The PIOs allow you to offload actions like outputting th
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by whiskers 6y ago
You can adjust the brightness of the light ring from the Google Wifi app (all the way down to "off"!).
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Time flies - Apple Event – September 15(youtube.com)
2 points by whiskers 6y ago|0 comments
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AMD Teases Zen3 (8th Oct) and RDNA2 (28th Oct) on Twitter(twitter.com)
1 points by whiskers 6y ago|0 comments
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by whiskers 6y ago
If you're interested in this and based in the UK then we have stock coming shortly and you can sign up for notification here: https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/teensy-4-1
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NASA, SpaceX set May 27 as target date for first crew launch(spaceflightnow.com)
304 points by whiskers 7y ago|71 comments
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by whiskers 7y ago
It looks like you can take a Raspberry Pi (Zero variant or 3A+ should all work since they support gadget mode) with camera module and have it behave as a USB webcam. https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=14
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by whiskers 7y ago
We (Pimoroni) have a solution coming for this! The Pi4 has changed the landscape a bit with respect to cooling so everyone has had to adjust. :-) If you reach out to me directly (e-mail in profile) I'll make sure we send you an early s
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by whiskers 7y ago
Interestingly we (also a Raspberry Pi Approved Reseller) tested these heatsink cases with fans attached and found that the fans didn't improve thermals due to the manner in which they are mounted. In the end we decided the extra cost,
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by whiskers 7y ago
Much obliged!
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by whiskers 7y ago
@mindcrime - I can't reply to you due to max depth. The current version doesn't, we're having a new, custom, fan made with an RPM feedback line for a future model but it'll be a couple of months yet.
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by whiskers 7y ago
By default it's always on. If you (optionally) install the daemon then it can use the Pi SoC's internal temperature sensor to control dynamically based on need.
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by whiskers 7y ago
Glad you like it! We think it's the best solution for cooling any model of Raspberry Pi that's available.
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by whiskers 7y ago
Ahoy! We ship (pretty fast!) to the US. :-) Failing that I'd hope Adafruit will have them in stock soon! I'm one of the co-founders of Pimoroni, drop me a line if you need any other help.
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by whiskers 7y ago
You really don't need a heatsink as well, the SoC has a heatspreader pre-installed. Fan SHIM will take your Pi 4 well below throttle temperatures even at full load! We posted some results on our blog (there is a more in-depth post to c
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Show HN: Fan Shim – Active Cooling for Raspberry Pi 4(shop.pimoroni.com)
3 points by whiskers 7y ago|3 comments
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by whiskers 7y ago
It’s perfect for that - let us know how you get on!

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