I do not recall seeing this reported here before. Several of us have the CHIP and Pocket CHIP. The company is defunct :-( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIP_(computer) CHIP is a single-board computer crowdfunded by now-defunct Next Thing Co. (NTC), https://hackaday.com/2018/04/03/is-this-the-end-for-the-c-h-i-p/ Is This The End For The C.H.I.P.? We ought to share all the documentation and updates we archived. -- jeff jonas
They were imploding about 9 months ago. Our company was doing business with them and things were looking questionable for more than a year. Bob On 2018-09-16 00:46, Jeffrey Jonas via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I do not recall seeing this reported here before.
Several of us have the CHIP and Pocket CHIP. The company is defunct :-(
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIP_(computer) CHIP is a single-board computer crowdfunded by now-defunct Next Thing Co. (NTC),
https://hackaday.com/2018/04/03/is-this-the-end-for-the-c-h-i-p/ Is This The End For The C.H.I.P.?
We ought to share all the documentation and updates we archived.
-- jeff jonas
On 09/16/2018 06:46 AM, Jeffrey Jonas via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I do not recall seeing this reported here before.
Several of us have the CHIP and Pocket CHIP. The company is defunct :-(
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIP_(computer) CHIP is a single-board computer crowdfunded by now-defunct Next Thing Co. (NTC),
https://hackaday.com/2018/04/03/is-this-the-end-for-the-c-h-i-p/ Is This The End For The C.H.I.P.?
I hadn't heard either. I saw the astonishingly and obviously poor decisions come, one after another, and expected this to happen eventually, but somehow I had missed the news when it happened. Great hardware design. Stupid, stupid people.
We ought to share all the documentation and updates we archived.
I agree. I have several of their boards in daily use here, and I want to keep them running. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
Yeah, this happened a few months ago. I only found out because we bought about 50 PocketCHIPs for a project at my old job and they went out of business a few months later (didn’t jeopardize the project, as they were meant to run entirely unconnected and use the LCD case for viewing). It’s a shame, but I think their pivot towards the less useful GR8 as the basis for their next generation, and the resulting prduction delays, ended up tanking the company. It’s a shame; their original product was actually pretty great, and quite useful. Fortunately, the design is entirely open source and is available on GitHub. It’s hard to produce new modules if you’re not doing it at scale, because a lot of the chips are only available in high quantities (unless you get them on Alibaba, with all attendant problems), but the potential is there. The Armenian distribution does a pretty good job of being a lightweight, reasonably well supported distribution for most embedded ARM boards out there. I don’t recall if they’ve got their GPU drivers running well yet on newer kernels, but it’s definitely the distro I’d run with if I needed to update from the last NTC distro. - Dave
On Sep 16, 2018, at 06:46, Jeffrey Jonas via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I do not recall seeing this reported here before.
Several of us have the CHIP and Pocket CHIP. The company is defunct :-(
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIP_(computer) CHIP is a single-board computer crowdfunded by now-defunct Next Thing Co. (NTC),
https://hackaday.com/2018/04/03/is-this-the-end-for-the-c-h-i-p/ Is This The End For The C.H.I.P.?
We ought to share all the documentation and updates we archived.
-- jeff jonas
I do not recall seeing this reported here before.
Several of us have the CHIP and Pocket CHIP. The company is defunct :-(
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIP_(computer) CHIP is a single-board computer crowdfunded by now-defunct Next Thing
Co. (NTC),
https://hackaday.com/2018/04/03/is-this-the-end-for-the-c-h-i-p/ Is This The End For The C.H.I.P.?
We ought to share all the documentation and updates we archived.
-- jeff jonas
I noticed one cant flash a chip and download the image from their site and that we as when I too learned this. Bill
Sadly I heard about this a few weeks ago. I was waiting for a Kickstarter reward. I guess I am out $50+. Such a shame, it seemed like a very nice product. I agree we should share information, software, etc. I would also appreciate suggestions/help/ideas on getting started using it as I have yet to do much with mine. Chris On Sep 16, 2018, at 6:46 AM, Jeffrey Jonas via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote: I do not recall seeing this reported here before. Several of us have the CHIP and Pocket CHIP. The company is defunct :-( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIP_(computer) CHIP is a single-board computer crowdfunded by now-defunct Next Thing Co. (NTC), https://hackaday.com/2018/04/03/is-this-the-end-for-the-c-h-i-p/ Is This The End For The C.H.I.P.? We ought to share all the documentation and updates we archived. -- jeff jonas
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