[57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Chilly Tuesday

[Tony Travis]

On 16/12/14 11:01, Tom Jones wrote:
> Hello Hackers,
> 
> Once again it is Tuesday, 57North's weekly open night. In fact it might be the
> last open night of the year, I am disappearing to far off lands and I imagine
> many others are too. 
> 
> Most Tuesdays see us hacking on things, drinking beer(or tea) and wondering how
> much control coke have on the world(I mean, they changed the colour of Satan).
> 
> While a lot of people will be leaving Aberdeen for the solstice festival, I am
> sure there are other that will be sat at home dreaming of soldering irons. If
> you are going to be around tonight, or over the next two weeks reply to this
> email and let everyone know.

Hi, Tom.

I'm not going into Space this evening and I'll be off to England on
19th. Good news is that Adapteva have given me an RMA for my other three
Parallella boards and are going to return my SD card too ;-)

I've been in touch with Samtec about 'e-Link' cables for the Parallella
and discovered that Adapteva have already paid to have a custom cable
made. Unfortunately, these are the cables that break the connectors off
the boards(!). Samtec are willing to redesign a more flexible cable for
me, but the cost would be far too much unless I can persuade many other
Parallella cluster owners to buy them or I'll have to crowd-fund it!

Bye,

  Tony.

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