[onerng talk] Blasted!

[Paul Campbell]

On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 17:49:58 ianG wrote:
> The OneRNG kickstarter just blasted through its limit at 100 backers and 
> $10k and change.
> 
> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/moonbaseotago/onerng-an-open-source-ent
> ropy-generator
> 
> So over-funding is now your nice problem to have, not under-funding

well Kickstarter recommends you price your goal as low as you can - $10k is 
about the spot where volume component buying  kicks in - not the spot where 
one gets insanely wealthy :-) Mostly I'm treating this as a learning 
experience.

You'll notice we have another whole month or so to run, largely this is 
because it's summer holidays here, everything shuts down. I'm off to Hong Kong 
with the family, then Vietnam - my kids both graduated Uni last week, this is 
the last great family vacation .... on Wed I'm going to slip across the border 
into Shenzhen and hit the markets, buy reels all the little components I need.

What I will do is find some sort of stretch goal - we've had other form factors 
suggested - and internal one for servers probably makes the most sense, I also 
knocked up an internal mPCIe - but I suspect most people who have such a slot 
probably already have a wifi card in it, it may not make as much sense

	Paul