Just helping a brotha out.

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Just helping a brotha out.

Originally shared by Richard Hughes

For the past 3 weeks I've been working long nights on an open source colorimeter called the ColorHug. This is hardware that measures the colors shown on the screen and creates a color profile. Existing hardware is proprietary and 100% closed, and my hardware has a GPL bootloader, GPL firmware image and GPL hardware schematics and PCBs. It's faster than the proprietary hardware, and more importantly a lot cheaper.

Making hardware does cost money, and I can't give the hardware away for free like I do my other software. I'm aiming to do an initial production run of 50 units, but I'm going to need some advanced orders just to make sure I don't get stuck with a lot of stock and no buyers. I'm offering a 20% discount on each unit, on the assumption the first users will be testing the firmware and reporting problems. If you want to support a cool open source project, I'm asking £48 for each unit, plus postage and packaging. There's a whole website http://www.hughski.com/ if you want to know more about the project, and there's even an newsletter if you don't need hardware, but want to know how we're getting on.

I would very much appreciate it if people could reshare this post, and help me get to my target of 50 pre-orders.

Thanks,

Richard

Comments

Dunken K Bliths said…
fantastic idea !!! - shame its not available for windows...!!!
November 13, 2011 at 7:39 PM
Robert N. Lee said…
The only people who need this only use Windows or Mac, so...nice thing that was made for little to no purpose, I guess.
November 13, 2011 at 7:39 PM
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