> this gadget is completely impractical for doing paid
> professional work
I think I proposed previously that this would be an awesome piece of kit for a mobile business wanting to give receipts for cash purchases. It needs a friendly UI, etc, but it has potential for sure.
Generally, any situation where you're away from the office and need to be able to print tiny bits of paper regularly, it could be quite useful.
Other than that it's a little gimmicky, maybe you could print off nice little TODO lists or something, but nothing a normal printer wouldn't do much better.
> If you are broke and want to learn programming, you'd be
> much better off with that Raspberry Pi keyboard and an
> external display.
Once you've got an SD card, support cables, etc, you're looking at quite a reasonable second-hand laptop. If you're able to go desktop, sometimes you can even pick up something for free.
> I think I proposed previously that this would be an awesome piece of kit for a mobile business wanting to give receipts for cash purchases.
The printer makes sense for that, but nothing else about the rest of the machine suggests "Mobile sales machine".
> Once you've got an SD card, support cables, etc, you're looking at quite a reasonable second-hand laptop. If you're able to go desktop, sometimes you can even pick up something for free.
> The printer makes sense for that, but nothing else about
> the rest of the machine suggests "Mobile sales machine".
Sure, but I bet a mobile sales machine could be a killer target audience for it.
I remember being in quite a few scenarios where we were writing out receipts by hand, and the customer saying "hmm, I'm not sure my work will accept this". Being able to print off something more legitimate looking (even with serial numbers, etc) could be really quite good.
I think it should also have:
* Some method to process card payments (if possible)
* A version that comes loaded with store-software ready to rock and role (even possibly connected to some cloud service they run)
> professional work
I think I proposed previously that this would be an awesome piece of kit for a mobile business wanting to give receipts for cash purchases. It needs a friendly UI, etc, but it has potential for sure.
Generally, any situation where you're away from the office and need to be able to print tiny bits of paper regularly, it could be quite useful.
Other than that it's a little gimmicky, maybe you could print off nice little TODO lists or something, but nothing a normal printer wouldn't do much better.
> If you are broke and want to learn programming, you'd be
> much better off with that Raspberry Pi keyboard and an
> external display.
Once you've got an SD card, support cables, etc, you're looking at quite a reasonable second-hand laptop. If you're able to go desktop, sometimes you can even pick up something for free.