Buying NanoNotes again--group purchase?

[Joshua Judson Rosen]

Looks like I have 1 taker, so far--which brings the per-unit shipping
cost down below $20. If anyone else is swayed be cheap(er) shipping,
let me know before the weekend--which is when I'll be placing the order :)

(Oh, and FYI: I'm local to Nashua, so convenient meetups for delivery
 range from ~Manchester down to ~Bedford, MA).

Joshua Judson Rosen <rozzin at geekspace.com> writes:
>
> Someone asked me this off-list, but I'm going to reply on-list,
> for now, since someone else might be interested in the response...:
> 
> > what do you do w/ [your NanoNote] / use it for?
> > 
> > Does it have wifi?
> 
> There's a µSD WiFi card available that can be used with it,
> if you like that kind of thing (think back to when WiFi
> for full-scale laptops came in the form of PCMCIA cards).
> 
> As I mentioned, my main use is as a (smart) portable music-player
> (I have a smart robojockey running on it, along with a UI
> that allows me to manually select tracks both by browsing
> and by searching--both of which are really helped by the presence
> of the keyboard; I'm drafting a longer explanation, right now...).
> And my wife wants one just to use as a music-player
> (`the problem I always have is that I hate queueing-up
>  music manually', she says [and `shuffle' really kinda sucks :)].
> 
> I also have Guile, Python, and some other interpreters installed,
> so I can use it basically as a `programmer's calculator' to solve
> (or just help me think through) problems that would be awkward
> or impossible with the more usual pocket calculators.
> 
> I'm in the middle of putting together patchsets for the
> `audio player'-related work/packaging that I've done for it,
> but there's a copy of my central `driver script', here:
> 
>     http://www.hackerposse.com/~rozzin/mpdjay
> 
> Mm. Maybe I should find time to go give a presentation at ManchLUG,
> or something....
> 
> An alternate angle on the NanoNote would be, of course:
> 
>     Are you the sort of person who likes Lego Mindstorms?
>     It's less expensive than Mindstorms :)
> 
> On that note, people more inclined toward hardware-hacking apparently
> like to connect them to their arduinos via a `universal breakout-board'
> µSD module that some guys in Spain are selling.
> 
> > On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
> > <rozzin at geekspace.com> wrote:
> > > So, the NanoNote that I bought back in September has
> > > turned out to be a fantastically good purchase for me,
> > > and my wife has started demanding that I get *her* one
> > > because she wants an `OMG that's so awesome'
> > > music-player just like the one that I now have
> > > (more on that later, in another post).
> > >
> > > As such, I intend to place an order for a second NanoNote
> > > in the next couple of days (so that I can give it to her
> > > for as a Mothers' Day present), so anyone else who's interested
> > > in getting one is again invited to do a `group buy' with me
> > > so that we can save on shipping.
> > >
> > > If you missed the conversation last time, here's a link
> > > to the thread:
> > >
> > >    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.gnhlug/20262
> > >
> > > They're [still] $99, but they [still] ship from Hong Kong so shipping
> > > a single unit [still] adds ~$30 to the price; shipping more units together
> > > increases the shipping-price but only ~logarithmically, so there's
> > > an opportunity to spread the shipping-cost out with a `group buy';
> > > for example, it [still] looks like shipping goes down to $11/unit
> > > if I order 5.
> > >
> > > Anyone interested, this time?

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