Folks would be more likely to do so if there were a visible way to do so.

I suspect they'll lose many people that way, since it's not clear the thing is even for sale unless you stumble upon it somehow. Is this an open source make-your-own-board thing where I get a BoM and CAD files? A buyable product? It's not clear at all from the site design.

Disclaimer: The design is responsive. It disappears at lower screen widths. There's a subtle menu in the top-right, and the bottom of the menu hides the "buy" button. It's fine if you're running a full-screen browser window on a desktop.

Thanks for your feedback - I dislike "pushing" the buy button, but you are right that it's hard to find on mobile, so I have added a [Buy a TinyPICO] and [Buy a TinyPICO Nano] button in the main body of each respective page.

Cheers :)

Thank you!

I dislike pushing "buy" too, but I like being able to find it, or at least knowing it's for sale. Most people coming in will have no idea.

Two more proposed changes:

1) "Getting started" presumes I have a device. I don't. That's obnoxious. The first step in getting started is buying a device (or, for other projects, ordering a PCB and a BoM, or otherwise). The first thing I want to know is:

- Is it for sale, or do I build it myself?

- What should I buy? Nano? Normal? Do I want any accessories?

- Where should I buy it?

2) In your github repos, you link to a store. It'd be nice if you said what you were selling in the lik "Or by buying the TinyPCIO or one of our other products on tindie or our own shop." This clearly contrasts with e.g. selling t-shirts and swag, build kits, or otherwise. And yes, many open source projects support themselves in part by selling unrelated swag.

Adafruit sells these, a good source if you're in the US and I think they do ship internationally.

It is a fantastic board. If it was cheaper (and had 16MB variants), I'd use it exlcusively. But regular ESP32 boards are 3-4€ on Aliexpress, so I can't justify it.

Espressif don't make a 16MB variant of the D4, and because the Flash is in the SiP, external flash can't be used. sorry :(

Aren't there 16MB variants of the S3? Plus the built-in USB OTG would be a good fit for the Pico.

The S3 is not out yet, not even close. My FeatherS2 has 16MB of flash and 8MB of PSRAM, and that has native USB. My TinyS2 has 4MB Flash and 2MB PSRAM and native USB and is the TinyPICO form factor. The ESP32-S3 for a "TinyPICO" form factor board will never come with more than 4MB of internal flash and external flash wont fit on a TinyPICO sized board.

I'll have a FeatherS3 and ProS3 out as soon as he ESP32-S3 is released.

https://feathers2.io

https://tinys2.io

his livestreams have taught me more about board design than anything else. also, this is an incredibly well documented board, as he livestreamed much of it and opensourced everything

Awesome project !

What exactly does his religion have to do with this discussion? It is irrelevant!

"Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead."

a.k.a. please don't feed the trolls

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Why is his nationality relevant to the discussion?

It isn't either !