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There is a new Kickstarter project called Hacker Boxes which does this on steroids: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/207210015/hackerboxes-t...
-Joe, Founder http://www.hackerboxes.com/
Either way, please keep in touch with us over here at HackerBoxes. In order to gauge what users find more or less interesting, we definitely want to hear feedback on our boxes from all subscribers, certainly the HackerNews crowd!
Hack the Planet, Joseph Long, Founder http://www.hackerboxes.com/
Edit: I see now that it's leveraging Paypal for shipping information too. Still, I wonder how the price responds if I start from a U.S. IP.
Cool concept! A couple things: 1) Using 'Tron' could be a bit problematic if Disney's lawyers get bored. 2) You might want to drop the annual price a bit, and maybe work on your shipping costs.
Disney most likely took the name from the TRON command which is/was a debugging feature in BASIC [0]. The site itself also (whether conciously or not) make no mention of the movie. "Tron" could also be an shortening of "Electron" but without the hassle of an apostrophy, e.g. 'tron-club. I could be talking bollocks though :) [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_command
I think its safe to say we've reached peak monthly-subscription-startup...
No, no, not at all. I'm 54 years old, played this sort of game in the early '70s in elementary school with kits from Radio Shack, but it didn't really take (science and later computers was my thing), and I'm seriously considering subscribing. I'm potentially interested in doing the projects, but definitely don't want to spend a lot of time on the net gathering the parts and info, although it would, as others note, be…
To the founders: why are you collecting payment before asking me where I live? Are you cool if I sign up through my American VPN and then choose a Canadian shipping address? Edit: I see now that it's leveraging Paypal for shipping information too. Still, I wonder how the price responds if I start from a U.S. IP.
Do you think this would be a good birthday present for 9 year old? Or is it too challenging for that age range?
To the founders: why are you collecting payment before asking me where I live? Are you cool if I sign up through my American VPN and then choose a Canadian shipping address? Edit: I see now that it's leveraging Paypal for shipping information too. Still, I wonder how the price responds if I start from a U.S. IP.
Do you think this would be a good birthday present for 9 year old? Or is it too challenging for that age range?