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This weekend's live stream

Here's the link to this weekend's live stream

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12fMcHRuisU

This weekend's live stream

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The best way for small traders to sell stuff like this is in kit form. And include a few extra LEDs just in case. The sort of people who would buy these probably want to build them too.

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I'm the "square computer" guy. In this stream, someone (I think Clive said "Mike Oxhard" or similar) asked whether they could be bought - I've been considering it. I could start an Etsy shop like Mouse/Russell (mini & wearable supercomputers) and hexled/Kane (hexaputer), but they would be quite expensive. Not more so than their products - so I guess those sell, so might mine. Between the boards, LEDs (the slow-flash are really nice but twice the price), cables, maybe a stand, and a significant amount of labour, it would not be a cheap/impulse type purchase. I'm also considering putting the files for the PCB up. I got them made at JLCPCB. So people could order themselves some boards and LEDs (you can have JLC prepopulate the board with the surface-mount resistors) and make them yourselves -- but it's a fair bit of work -- 288 solder joints for the LEDs, plus a couple more for the cable -- and it is fiddly, as they're pretty dense on the board. They're 5mm LEDs on 8mm-or-so centers so there's only 3mm space between the + leg of one resistor and the - leg of the next. And the pads are pretty tiny. I wouldn't recommend it as a first-time soldering project. So -- is anyone interested in these? Would you prefer to buy premade, or download the files and make them yourself? I have already made the 3D printed base file available - it's for a standard 100mm square board, which is what the computer uses and JLC likes to make. There's the Python original script (which uses pythonopenscad to produce OpenSCAD output) here: https://pyropus.ca./personal/projects/computron-stand.py.txt ... and the resulting OpenSCAD file if you just want to load it into OpenSCAD: https://pyropus.ca./personal/projects/computron-stand.scad.txt Charles

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