[lug] FXI Tech's "Cotton Candy" available for preorder

[Michael J. Hammel]

On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 07:50 -0700, Crawford Rainwater wrote:
> FXI (http://www.fxitech.com/) is preparing to launch the Cotton
> Candy, 

After a year of working on a book project, I'm finally getting back to
my BeagleBox project.  It's focused on BeagleBoard at the moment but
once I get a stable distribution built I'll look at supporting other ARM
devices.  The Cotton Candy is on my list.

Last night I tried to buy a Raspberry Pi.  They went on sale at 11pm
MST.  They authorized two resellers in the UK.  Both sites went down
immediately.  I finally got through on one site (RS) but could only find
a page that allowed you to "register interest" in the device, not
actually purchase it.  That registration never completed - constant
timeouts trying to submit it.  

After an hour of page reloads I finally got into the other site,
Farnell, and actually made it to the point of filling in their forms to
place an order - only to find out they don't offer an option of shipping
to the US.

So no joy on that one.  Hopefully someone else had better luck.

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Michael J. Hammel                         Principal Software Engineer
Mike.Hammel at coloradoengineeringinc.com         http://coloradoengineeringinc.com
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