Why I stopped hacking the Amazon Dash button and learned to solder

Re:Why I stopped hacking the Amazon Dash button and learned ... by alex_hitchins on Monday August 01, 2016 @10:13AM (#12202492)

I guess given this endevour was started with an educational focus the philosophy is on spreading the platform to the largest number of people, as opposed to letting a few people purchase many.

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Re:Why I stopped hacking the Amazon Dash button and learned ... by StavrosK on Monday August 01, 2016 @10:16AM (#12202518)

Maybe, but if I need five for what I want to do and can only buy one, it's not going to spread, since I won't use it.

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Re:Why I stopped hacking the Amazon Dash button and learned ... by alex_hitchins on Monday August 01, 2016 @10:29AM (#12202603)

Have you made contact with the RPi foundation? If you registered an interest for a larger number and state your educational goals they may well be able to help you out.

What are you looking to do with them out of interest?

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Re:Why I stopped hacking the Amazon Dash button and learned ... by StavrosK on Monday August 01, 2016 @03:14PM (#12205097)

But that's the thing, I don't need hundreds, I just need five or ten, so it's just amateur usage but one doesn't work (one could easily fry while experimenting).

I just make weird things out of them. My latest one is an RC car that I was hoping could get some mapping software onto, and turn fully autonomous, although an ESP8266 talking to a laptop is acceptable (and what I'm currently doing).

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