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paulofisch

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About paulofisch

Director at Pimoroni. Graphic Designer, Hacker, Maker and general internet geek. Autodidact and Sybarite.

@guru on twitter.com/guru

Recent public activity

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    Comment #20186981

    Making your own Stephenson Screen seems like one of the better uses of a 3D printer I've seen :) https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:83969

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    Comment #12268856

    Dealing with PJRC, by contrast, has been basically frictionless :-) Lovely fella too when I bumped into him at BAMF.

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    Comment #7321570

    The main touchy-feely moment for me here is that a notoriously closed, $17-billion company was brought around by a friendly, gentle approach to convincing it to be more open. Group…

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    Comment #4312230

    A kid being able to save for and buy a computer that is all their own is a good experience for getting them enthused about learning with it. The board is just a tool though. The re…

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    Comment #4312208

    The education stuff will hit in September when the new term starts. Right now everyone is in the process of creating materials to teach, getting the units out there and making sure…

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    Comment #4258901

    As you wish http://www.flickr.com/photos/82849540@N05/sets/7215763062822...

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    Comment #4258771

    We're always open to ideas and a chat :) Mail us at sales [at] pi mo ro ni .com. And thanks :-)

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    Comment #4258766

    Entirely depends on how well we do with this one. We hope to release something more, um, tasteful in the future. We started with the loud/retro/child-magnet case to start with to m…

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    Comment #4258752

    Making 4000 units a day and still not meeting demand is a nice problem to have, frustrating as it is for a lot of people.

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    Comment #4258220

    There are gaps in there for airflow around the ports and through the case over the chip and power. We've run it for 24 hours and it the result was it got warm on the bottom, so we'…

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    Comment #4258068

    Orders up to 1000: within 3 weeks. Above that: As fast as we can make and ship 'em, we're happy we can ramp up to hundreds a week fairly quickly.

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    Comment #4258043

    Right here: http://canada.newark.com/raspberry-pi/raspbrry-pcba/raspberr...

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    Comment #4258038

    Oops. Must use 'enclosure' more often. The "what do I do with it?" Is a common question. We're working on making the answer easy for everyone :)

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    Comment #4004533

    Coda has been getting long in the tooth for a while (and is still my daily web-dev buddy). It's nice to see Panic coming out all guns blazing with the new hotness. Software I activ…

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    Comment #3878486

    Even accounting for VAT@20% this is still a £9 price increase over the US price. It's not that hard to put the 'u' back in color.

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    Comment #3855526

    Even better, it comes with Cloud9 IDE and node.js running by default, so can just power it up, point a browser to it, and get hacking. http://c9.io/ It's a nice touch.

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    Comment #3695495

    Good to know. Will look forward to it. I also see you've been firefighting today. Hope it's all been a learning experience, and mostly positive :)

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    Comment #3694270

    It looks like there are just some templates for Twitter and Facebook activity right now. I was expecting something a little more interesting than very rigid templates. A basic and …

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    Comment #3693147

    The links going to http://i-wish-it-was-true.com/ are not encouraging for the veracity of the story :-) What gives? Hoax? Thought piece?

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    Comment #3678237

    As a content owner, if I post my own stuff then I've still given them the right to sell it through the Site/App/Service by these terms. It provides some limits, but not the ones co…

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    Raspberry Pi launched. RS & Farnell to manufacture under license.

    Full details at http://raspberrypi.org/ Price remains at $35 (Model B) and $25 (Model A). ~10,000 Model B's available immediately to buy. The Model A can also be pre-ordered and no…

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    Comment #3644585

    Between the one-per-person limit for the first batch and moving to rolling production fairly quickly, the eBay inflation factor should be cut to a minimum. The first batch of 10000…

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    Comment #3643154

    That would be pretty damn cool. If it weren't for the army of geeks with internet pitchforks :-)

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    Comment #3640554

    From the Raspi Twitter "not allowed to say (arcane contractual stuff)"