Finally they've arrived! 🤣

What is it? And what is it for?

@unrealchrisp its a computer, which you can get for nine dollars or 29 dollars depending on which you want to buy, its pretty cool

It's nothing like the raspberry pi! I have tons of Pi's but I only have five chips xD. No but seriously is quite different in price and features.

What are those?) It's not Rasp PI, so what is it?

@fuckinghipsters what do you use them for? (if it isn't a commercial secret))

@OrestH right now it's a few bags of c.h.i.p. from getchip.com . In a couple of hours is going to be a nano docker swarm. 😎

Edit: for those of you wondering, they're about about half the size of a raspberry, built-in wifi and blue tooth, 4gb flash storage and a lipo battery connector with a charging circuit if you roll that way

@fuckinghipsters OK, It isn't in my competence to understand your project) the idea sounds great though)

@TheGeekyGuy I mean the idea of having tons of chips and PIs)

Hello fellow chip owner!

PS: Mine is eating dust now. Thanks for reminding i own one and I should probably do something with it 😃

@fuckinghipsters no, I think they don't have built-in WIFI. You need a module for that.

It is sort of like a raspberry pi though... an all in one ARM board that runs Linux.

And yeah it has wi-fi built in.

I keep toying with getting the one that has a built in screen and keyboard. Don't need the extra junk though...

@utwo they do, I have 5 of them communicating over wifi in a swarm right now.

@benoliver999 seeing they're dead cheap you don't really need to make a choice. Just think of it as you're getting your raspberry a new friend to talk to 😄

I kick-started them but have up after all the delays and asked for a refund. Tbh I'm surprised they ever sent any out. Looks cool though.

Where can I research about this?

Actually. What do you really use it for apart from docker swarm?

Just curious because I got a Pi, tinkered around with it, and left it in the corner because I have no idea what to do with it (apart from it being a glorified temperature / humidity sensor...)

@kileak it's basically a mini Linux computer. Web Server: Mono, WordPress, Node, GIT. The Pi-Hole project turns it into an AdBlocking DNS server (with your choice of fallback.) I was able to read Forbes with the PiHole. There is also the Pi-Music box image. Something I haven't touched yet: there is one project where the pi is like the network monitor. Eclipse Che supposedly also runs on it, but I haven't tried it.

@kileak about the raspberry pi, I'm using one for my "home theatre" running osmc and parallel to that it holds my own git server and it hosts a small webpage.
I never thought a home theatre could host a webpage before trying 😀

I have a few PIs.

Two home theater ones, one for the living room one for the bedroom (pulling content from the N'AS).

One for emulation with retropie

One has a DAC attached and acts as a hi-fi

At work I have one for development and our PBX runs on another (we are a small business)

@jamesh I ordered them 3 weeks ago, never saw the Kickstarter. Seems legit and fast shipment.

@kileak the Pi's I have at home are currently running, a home theater system (libreelec) , another acts as a ubiquity unifi controller, third one is my mitm proxy / softAp for "debugging" mobile apps REST protocols and decloaking SSL. 4th is work in progress, building NFC based scrum board integration at work. E.g. to use blank NFC cards as micro whiteboards and physically move tasks to "complete" ;)

Bottom line, you can do alot of stuff with a bit of imagination.

Yup pretty much the same I'm using it for, a mini Linux box + media center + retropie haha.

Thing is, after I moved to digital ocean (usd5/month for a constantly on cloud Linux server), I've since retired it to a torrent box instead of a development / hosting server.

Was wondering if anyone did any particularly cool project, like say, connect it to a RC / Sphero / etc for a more... Out there implementation :-)