I've just recently restarted advertising and revamped the website to start looking for new clients. I'm still in my first year of trading, only doing this at evenings and weekends as work full time. So not had many clients, had 4 SA returns since April. I'm hoping to invest a bit more money in october/November with advertising in local papers and magazines, hopefully something will come of that. I'm sure there will be a snow ball effect one day that everyone keeps talking about lol, I haven't really invested much in advertising been relying on Facebook and word of month pretty much.
Anyway just thought I'd share what I'm up too, I had contemplated giving up the beast, but I know where I want to be and I know what I want my life to be like in a couple of years time, i sont want ti be workong for a boss full time, So fingers crossed :)
Relevant to this forum, I'll be doing a small amount of work on a couple of clients' cloud-based stuff, starting in a few minutes time.
Not relevant to this forum, but a whole lot more interesting (IMO), I'll then be firing up TurboCAD to design the next prototype for a Raspberry Pi case (range) I'm working on, which I'll then send off to a 3D printer, with a view to putting on sale later in the year.
Oh, and far from being a gorgeous bank holiday - here in Bristol it's wet and dreary.
-- Edited by VinceH on Monday 25th of August 2014 11:40:10 AM
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I was supposed to be but the client cancelled me picking up their books and records last night.... as its a bank holiday. (so of course I'm going to rearrange my business plans around other peoples jollies).
Ridiculous. Bank holidays, weekends and eight hours sleep are all just for people who don't have businesses.
Anyway, suppose that it gives me the opportunity to do my own accounts and VAT return.
On the weather front, yep, wet and dreary just north of Brum as well.
I'm old school, to me a raspberry pi case is shortcrust pastry (lol).
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Shaun, that would be pie rather than Pi. The latter, of course, may be used to determine the area of the former (assuming it is, or is a slice of one that was, round) given knowledge of its diameter.
For those that don't know (which, given the media coverage it's had, shouldn't really be anyone who hasn't spent the last couple of years living on Pluto), the Raspberry Pi is a credit card sized, ARM-based computer, which comes very cheaply as a bare board - i.e. uncased. In very simple terms, its purpose is to help get kids learning about computers, and what can be done with them, rather than just learning how to use the likes of Word, Excel and Powerpoint; to program computers, and build things with them. Its low-cost helps with that, especially the latter, because it really doesn't matter too much if you break it.
Since it is just a bare board, there is a market for cases into which it can be put - and as a user of RISC OS (the operating system developed for ARM processors by the company that invented the ARM processor), I'm in the process of creating cases that have a certain appeal to the (annoyingly small) RISC OS market.
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Surely making your own case is also part of the learning process. Buying one is just encouraging consumerism . I built a case for my Sinclair Project 60 hi-fi amplifier and tuner many years ago, and seem to remember making one for the keyboard I added to my Sinclair ZX81, although the computer itself came with a case.
I picked all my raspberries yesterday, but there are nowhere near enough for a pie!
Surely making your own case is also part of the learning process. Buying one is just encouraging consumerism
There is that, yes - but in general (i.e. outside the RISC OS market) not all the things that can be done with a Pi appeal to all the people using one; some people are interested in programming, others are interested in hardware projects (e.g. building robots, or sending them attached to cameras and sensors high into the atmosphere), some are interested in embedded projects using the Pi, and so on.
And some people are just using the Pi as what it actually is: a small, cheap computer.
And that's pretty much where we bring the RISC OS market back into the picture; it's where the largest part of the RISC OS market is - people who want to use the Pi as a computer on which to run their operating system of choice, and the software that runs on that OS (including some of my software, funnily enough).
RISC OS users, like other Pi users have the choice of a number of cases for the Pi - but, as I said earlier, the case I'm designing is specifically aimed at the RISC OS market; it's a case with a note of familiarity to RISC OS users, and therefore a distinctly RISC OS flavoured case.
Of which I have just finished designing prototype #3 of the smaller model, just a few minutes before looking at my RSS feed and seeing a comment on this subject here. Next up: send it off to the 3D printers, then wait a week or so for it to be delivered and see if the design is right.
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For those that don't know (which, given the media coverage it's had, shouldn't really be anyone who hasn't spent the last couple of years living on Pluto),
-- Edited by VinceH on Monday 25th of August 2014 01:20:57 PM
. I built a case for my Sinclair Project 60 hi-fi amplifier and tuner many years ago, and seem to remember making one for the keyboard I added to my Sinclair ZX81, although the computer itself came with a case.
