C.H.I.P. comes pre-loaded with Scratch

> On 12.05.2015, at 19:11, tim Rowledge <[hidden email]> wrote:
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> On 12-05-2015, at 5:15 AM, Bert Freudenberg <[hidden email]> wrote:
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>> Newsworthy?
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>> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598272670/chip-the-worlds-first-9-computer
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> It *could* be an interesting thing, but there appear to be some problems.
> For example, it only has a composite video out, so a fairly expensive adaptor is need to use any likely monitor. Not an issue of course for headless usage. Except they are touting the uses as a desktop machine - hey, even Scratch, wonder if they’ve adopted my improved version - which sort of needs a monitor. And the shipping is *$20*. And it only has half as much memory as a Pi, which apparently was a totally killer problem for the Pi until the Pi 2 came out. And open source bigots^H^H^H^H^Hafficionados are complaining about the use of an AllWinner soc.
> On the other hand it has wi-fi & BT included.
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> As an IoT platform it seems like it would have a good place in the world, if the shipping didn’t make it essentially as expensive as a Pi but without the backup, community and educational raison.

> On 12.05.2015, at 21:55, Ron Teitelbaum <[hidden email]> wrote:
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> http://news.squeak.org/2015/05/12/cool-interesting-wait-is-that-scratch/ 
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> :)
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> Ron
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> Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] C.H.I.P. comes pre-loaded with Scratch
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>> On 12.05.2015, at 19:11, tim Rowledge <[hidden email]> wrote:
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>>> On 12-05-2015, at 5:15 AM, Bert Freudenberg <[hidden email]> wrote:
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>>> Newsworthy?
> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598272670/chip-the-worlds-first-9-comp
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>> It *could* be an interesting thing, but there appear to be some problems.
>> For example, it only has a composite video out, so a fairly expensive
> adaptor is need to use any likely monitor. Not an issue of course for
> headless usage. Except they are touting the uses as a desktop machine - hey,
> even Scratch, wonder if they've adopted my improved version - which sort of
> needs a monitor. And the shipping is *$20*. And it only has half as much
> memory as a Pi, which apparently was a totally killer problem for the Pi
> until the Pi 2 came out. And open source bigots^H^H^H^H^Hafficionados are
> complaining about the use of an AllWinner soc.
>> On the other hand it has wi-fi & BT included.
>>
>> As an IoT platform it seems like it would have a good place in the world,
> if the shipping didn't make it essentially as expensive as a Pi but without
> the backup, community and educational raison.
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> Whatever its flaws, it's yet another platform shipping Squeak by default, so
> I thought that we might capitalize on that while it's in the news.
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> - Bert -
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