Humble Book Bundle: Arduino and Raspberry Pi | Hacker News Reader

Humble Book Bundle: Arduino and Raspberry Pi

humblebundle.com

95 pointstriecatch15 comments

Thanks for the tip! Ordered. One of the better bundles I've seen.

Just a warning for anyone who purchased, I bought this last week on Feb 22nd. This morning, Feb 28, my wife noticed massive fraudulent charges on our credit card. I'm not saying that it was definitively HumbleBundle but they are on the official "affected by CloudBleed" bug. Check your card statement if you bought this.

IMO highiest tier should include Raspberry Pi Zero.

I think handling worldwide shipping would be difficult for them, as they usually only sell downloadable content. They could of course provide a voucher, though it could be difficult finding a suitable vendor. Otherwise I agree.

They've done it before with t-shirts, for example for the [Total War Bundle](1) and [Paradox Bundle](2).

[1](https://support.humblebundle.com/hc/en-us/articles/209635507...)

[2](https://support.humblebundle.com/hc/en-us/articles/206061607...)

I would rather pay more to get an OrangePI, NanoPI or even better, pay a lot more and get an Odroid C2. The RPi Zero is nothing more than a marketing gimmick.

These ebook offers are truly interesting, but unless technology advancement gives us an useable e-ink reader that doesn't die trying to deal with books containing high res schematics or graphs, I'm still going with the dead tree versions.

The allwinner CPUs have atrocious thermal properties and are iffy on power usage.

The raspberries (other than zero) run on anything, but too little power and they corrupt your sd card.

The pi-zero runs on a potato and is a great ad-blocking DNS server for my home network.

First time I hear that. Are these problems documented agree anywhere?

"The allwinner CPUs have atrocious thermal properties and are iffy on power usage."

This was due to wrong CPU thermal throttling values set by the boards manufacturers in the OS images they provide and is already fixed in Armbian, which IMO is the best distro out there for a lot of boards.

I just want a loose leaf printed version of all the books I've bought through Humble Bundle.

Is anyone familiar with any of these books? I'm particularly interested in the FPGA book but can't find many reviews of it (most say that it's shallow, but don't go into whether the content that's there is good).

Normally, I wouldn't do this, but this is an archive.org . I tend to like digital AND paper. YMMV.

https://archive.org/details/MakeFpgas-DavidRomano

Humble Book Bundles are digital only, so that's the same thing that they're selling.

I went through the FPGA book with Oreilly. It is not great but bad. If you know zero about FPGAs and are not super technical (more of a hobbyist), this could be a very good book. It has a bunch of chapters, each is a project with a particular board. Some of the boards are kinda dead now (the version of Papilio .. I couldn't figure out how to get one for my own hobby purposes).

I own a couple of these books (not the fpga) and they are pretty shallow.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com