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That countdown showing the number of remaining orders with free shipping is a stroke of marketing genius. It certainly worked on me.
It had the opposite effect on me. I saw that I missed out on free shipping so I didn't order one.
After all, stores don't leave their signs up after a sale is over. "Oh sorry, yeah - that was $19 yesterday. We sold a ton of them! You can buy it today for $26 though."
So proud to be part of the team!
Can you provide a little more clarity on what the Photon Kit listed in the store consists of? The short description says "several sensors" and the description in the modal is even more vague with "a couple of extra surprises".
That countdown showing the number of remaining orders with free shipping is a stroke of marketing genius. It certainly worked on me.
It had the opposite effect on me. I saw that I missed out on free shipping so I didn't order one.
"I should get a Nexus 9, I do a lot of Android app development on my Nexus 7 and it is getting long in the tooth, $400... not bad" -> Nexus 9 on sale for half-price on release day (limited quantities) -> Missed the release window -> "Nexus 9 just doubled in price, I don't want to pay $400 for one"
Rationally I recognize that the value of the Nexus 9 relative to the $400 regular price didn't change at all due to the temporary sale, but emotional-response-wise it doesn't matter.
I hope I'm not missing something: is this a smaller, better, cheaper version of the Core? If so, does the Core only exist until the Photon starts shipping?
So proud to be part of the team!
Any idea whether there is or will be support for IPv6 on the Photon? Particularly for this sort of device, I think it is important to have that support.
So why would I choose this over a $20 Raspberry Pi?
There are of course many reasons why you would choose a $20 Raspberry Pi over this as well (far more memory, more powerful CPU, runs a full user OS, etc). It all depends on what you need it to do.
So proud to be part of the team!
Congrats on what seems like a very warm reception on HN! Can you provide a little more clarity on what the Photon Kit listed in the store consists of? The short description says "several sensors" and the description in the modal is even more vague with "a couple of extra surprises".
As a wifi -> GPIO board, this seems to be similar to the Electric Imp, but better since it doesn't use their misguided SD card form-factor or their blink-up nonsense. They also have a web-based ide, as well as a downloadable ide. I've not tried either of those out, but the downloadable IDE (though no Linux support) means I can use the same version control tools (ie git) to manage it, which is a huge win over Electric…
https://ack.me/products/AMW006_Numbat#block-diagram
This module has a slower CPU (but with floating point) and slightly less RAM. $16 in onsies, $14 in quantity. But you'll need to add an antenna connector.
Edit: I'm in the UK.