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posted by martyb on Thursday September 01 2016, @04:19AM   Printer-friendly
from the CHIPs-Ahoy! dept.

Several sites have articles about the PocketCHIP, a handheld computer that was funded through Kickstarter. It seems to have shipped to its sponsors, or at least to review sites, but the company's Web site displays "Estimated Shipping October 2016" for the rest of us.

The device is built around the CHIP computer, which has a 1 GHz ARM Cortex-R8 processor, Mali 400 GPU, 4 GB of flash, 512 MB of RAM, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4, and USB 3.0. The PocketCHIP adds a plastic case, keyboard, lithium polymer battery and 480-by-272-pixel touch screen. It comes with Debian Linux and the PICO-8 software suite, which allows one to create and play video games.

The PocketCHIP is being sold for $69 ($49 for those who sponsored it), and the CHIP for $9.

Accessories are also offered to add VGA or HDMI output to the CHIP. It appears that owners of the PocketCHIP would have to take it apart to use those.

Articles:

Further information:
  manufacturer's blog


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  • (Score: 2) by joshuajon on Thursday September 01 2016, @04:11PM

    by joshuajon (807) on Thursday September 01 2016, @04:11PM (#396232)

    It seemed like on one side of the keyboard the holes are perfectly vertical, but as the print progressed the became more and more angled. It's possible that it was caused by the issues you described, but like I said I'm also a bit of an amateur. I've on pretty old firmware for my device and relatively low print speeds so it might be caused by jitter introduced in to the build plate by the extruder movement. I'm also using free software for slicing at the moment, but plan to upgrade to Simplify3D soon as I've read that it makes a world of difference.

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  • (Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Thursday September 01 2016, @11:03PM

    by hemocyanin (186) on Thursday September 01 2016, @11:03PM (#396445) Journal

    If you try S3D, be aware that they have a 10 or 15 day return policy. I tried it -- hated it for printing ABS due to the way it set up the first layer of supports (no hash underneath and so they often came unstuck and ruined the print).

    The problem might also be in the STL on thingiverse. One thing I'd try is making a cube with a hole in the center -- very simple shape. Then scatter that around your buildplate. If you get angled holes, there is probably some tuning to do on your printer. If you don't, the file from TV is probably flawed. If you want to test that, I made a file you could use: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1748959 [thingiverse.com] After printing it would be informative to measure the height, length, width and diameters with calipers.