...and Apple was founded on April 1st, 1976
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For Apple's 40th anniversary, they're launching their *second* single board computer. It's called the Apple Device.
Just as how the Apple I was a turning point for the personal computer revolution, the Apple Device will introduce a new paradigm of devices built around ecosystems and other empty words that dumb people use to sound smart.
Here's a link to the April Fool's Day post.
Some perspective for how successful this was: A few thousand hits from reddit and hackernews, tens of thousands from Google News, I know Tim Cook reads hackaday now, and substantially more successful than I would have imagined.
On February 29th, Raspberry Pi launched the Raspberry Pi 3. The announcement post for this board was the most popular for the entire month of February and March. That's understandable; new hardware for a popular device. On April 1st, the Apple Device post got one and a half times the number of views as the Raspi 3 launch post.
A lot of people want it.
As I was writing the Apple Device post, I started thinking, 'man, this is an awfully cool little board. I'd pay $50 for this.' Judging from the comments, a lot of other people would, too.
Here's a reminder that you too can build one of these boards:
It is 9am on March 30th, meaning this needs to be done in a little more than one day. I guess that means I need to start writing, huh? At least the prototype is built.
Good news, though: 0201 resistors don't show up on non-microscopic cameras. I'll be taking this over to the photo light cube thing today to get some apple-like hero shots of the board. There's more to a write-up than that, though: here's a few benchmark images:
Are these even real benchmarks? No. Does it matter? No, people just look at pretty graphs. Protip: be sure to make the device under test a 'cool' color, preferably blue. Some company is paying you to write this review, and the majority of corporate logos are blue. Psychobabble follows.
the bad alignment of the zero ohm resistors made me not fall for this :P other than that, the over the tops specs ;)
Now I'm confused.
Are you starting a project to actually build this?
It's already built.
Oh, you mean a version that actually works? No.
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what a wonderful idea that you are sharing i am also working on the same project you can see here https://uaeadvise.com/