Tron-Club, a monthly circuit-building kit • Hacker News Board

Re: Tron-Club, a monthly circuit-building kit

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Post by zokier » Wed, Jul 15, 2015, 3:43 PM UTC

empressplay wrote: post #25

batou wrote: post #18

The only killer value here is the material and there's little of that on display at the moment. What appears to be there is stuff you can find for nothing on the web with a little googling ( http://allaboutcircuits.com/ http://electronicsclub.info/ for example) The parts are worth little to nothing; less than $30. You can get bagged kits from bitsbox.co.uk with everything you need for $24. I can't see the value propo…

Given the price of the parts I'd strongly consider offering the first month free, or at most for the cost of shipping. I just don't see too many people parting with $20 based on a landing page + no social proof. I could be wrong though...

> Given the price of the parts I'd strongly consider offering the first month free, or at most for the cost of shipping.

They are offering 60 days money back guarantee, so isn't that pretty much equivalent to first month free?

Re: Tron-Club, a monthly circuit-building kit

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Post by zokier » Wed, Jul 15, 2015, 3:48 PM UTC

I would hope that the kits do include more advanced/useful stuff than the LED blinkers they are showing on their page. Compare and contrast to something like old Heathkits.

Re: Tron-Club, a monthly circuit-building kit

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Post by codezero » Wed, Jul 15, 2015, 4:00 PM UTC

This looks really interesting but I won't buy unless the poster engages with the commenters here to address some of the questions.

Re: Tron-Club, a monthly circuit-building kit

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Post by Randomplayer » Wed, Jul 15, 2015, 4:28 PM UTC

The HackerBoxes King7532 was talking about look neat. I already pre ordered and I can't wait until they ship! Check them out here: hackerboxes.com

Re: Tron-Club, a monthly circuit-building kit

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Post by firephreek » Wed, Jul 15, 2015, 4:36 PM UTC

I was going to sign up, but no way to pay without paypal or bitcoin. Don't have the latter, won't deal with the former. Too bad the only way to contact them is 'on their social networks'. Seriously?

Re: Tron-Club, a monthly circuit-building kit

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Post by iamchmod » Wed, Jul 15, 2015, 4:55 PM UTC

Do you think this would be a good birthday present for 9 year old? Or is it too challenging for that age range?

Re: Tron-Club, a monthly circuit-building kit

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Post by jhawk28 » Wed, Jul 15, 2015, 4:58 PM UTC

iamchmod wrote: post #56

Do you think this would be a good birthday present for 9 year old? Or is it too challenging for that age range?

You might want to start with Snap Circuits.

Re: Tron-Club, a monthly circuit-building kit

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Post by jlonglaw » Wed, Jul 15, 2015, 5:22 PM UTC

zokier wrote: post #52

I would hope that the kits do include more advanced/useful stuff than the LED blinkers they are showing on their page. Compare and contrast to something like old Heathkits.

Check out www.HackerBoxes.com :)

Re: Tron-Club, a monthly circuit-building kit

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Post by jlonglaw » Wed, Jul 15, 2015, 5:24 PM UTC

Randomplayer wrote: post #54

The HackerBoxes King7532 was talking about look neat. I already pre ordered and I can't wait until they ship! Check them out here: hackerboxes.com

Thanks Rando!. We appreciate your support. Please keep in touch and let us know what things you like or not about the first boxes as they start arriving.

www.HackerBoxes.com

Re: Tron-Club, a monthly circuit-building kit

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Post by peeters » Wed, Jul 15, 2015, 5:24 PM UTC

gergles wrote: post #22

I really really really hate the separate shipping cost. We can't get it without shipping. Don't quote prices that are impossible to achieve. The pricing, BTW, is $20 a month or $18.33 a month if you pay a year in advance.

This assumes that the shipping rates will be the same anywhere that they serve. That's usually an incorrect assumption. This format allows for variations in the shipping while keeping the same unit price.

Edit: Although, I am confused that they send me through the Paypal service before collecting my shipping address. Are they actually quoting me a price based on IP geolocation? That's kind of a dumb assumption; I send half of my traffic through a private VPN. I could probably save quite a bit of money by switching to U.S. East coast server for the payment processing.