My CHIP still not delivered. They re-scheduled 3 times the delivery. The last was 3 Oct. Today I received the "happy" news this will be shipped at the beginning of Nov. The initial shipment was June when I ordered in March.

I ordered a TextBlade (small-form factor bluetooth keyboard with pretty nifty technology) on March 2015 for delivery on June 2015 (not a Kickstarter, mind you) and I'm still waiting (actually all purchasers are, except for a beta testing group).

Actually, I did not participated in the Kikstarter campaign, but I purchased from the web site. So, my assumption is that if the company is trying to do regular business it must act like regular business.

I got burned by that too (CST-01 website order).

The rule of thumb seems to be if they did a kickstarter, don't touch the company in any way till there's proof that a significant % of the backers actually have the product in their hands.

I was thinking of buying one recently but couldn't find any reviews on YouTube which seemed suspect. Do you expect to ever get it?

I have one Chip and one PocketChip as a backer; my lifepartner has another PocketChip. Last February I preordered five Chips (the max) and another PocketChip. My understanding is that it's actually the PocketChip that holding up shipping my order.

If you're interested in activity from users, https://bbs.nextthing.co/ is the place to go.

I did a presso at a Scala conference back in February about using Scala on Chip, you can view the deck here:

https://goo.gl/2t5hBX

I was an early order of TextBlade too, cancelled after waiting a year for a device that was supposed to be in production and ready to ship. I got tired of letting people hold my money who wouldn't tell me the truth. The TextBlade forum is now being purged of anybody who complains; having originally created a "Rants" section, ranting is no loner allowed. For uncensored information, go to the TextBlade Reddit.

The TextBade mobile app, required for firmware updates and adavanced keyboard mapping has been in the iOS app store since last December (it's needed to be a beta user). Only mock-ups (at best; the video could well be fake) of the Android app have been shown; previously WayTools said they would not begin development on Android until after they started shipping product. They basic attitude has been that they don't give a crap about Android users but like their money.

Oh, is that you Maggie from the forum? I'm still vaguely able to complain there, or so it seems, but I still keep it low key. I also cancelled after a year, but then reordered when the beta testing thing started, since it seemed kind of imminent to get one. How wrong I was.

Checking your Scala on Chip deck, I'm pretty deep down the Scala rabbit hole since a couple of months ago.

Thanks! I was asking about the TextBlade no the Chip. Thanks for the TextBlade info. Seems like a real shame: the idea looked great.

A TextBlade? Well, there seem to be too many beta testers in the wild for it to be a scam of any kind, and too much money has been dropped on it, I suspect, so, yes, I expect to get it at some point. Of course I'm pretty pissed at having to wait that much, though.

Hang in there, this is par for the course with a lot of these boot-up hardware projects, the guys behind CHIP are not yet mass-market vendors of these things, it is always bumpy for first adopters of this brave new world of quaint hardware ..

That said, I have my PocketCHIP. It is a great little Linux box, the perfect thing to .. indeed .. stick a pencil in, ssh into, and use .. well, like .. any other Linux workstation .. like, omfg, could this actually BE a decent Linux desktop? Answer, immfo, is this: YES! Worth the wait!

Ditto. I had planned on porting FreeBSD to it, but with all of the delays and more interesting boards coming out since it was announced, I've lost all interest at this point.

I got mine, ordered not in the kickstarter but later, arrived on time. Since then I did not really use it, so far other stuff to do and my existing ARM homeserver is working just fine.

If you can use it do to some serious work like porting stuff to it, I'd at least lend it to you. Send me an mail (in profile), I'm in Europe.

Share the more interesting boards please because I am salivating over the pricepoint and features of this one.

It does look pretty damn amazing for $16, and it's SMD-ready.

I've got mine. the pocketchip ts pretty fun. installed python and idle and messed around. quake 3 would not run. but I played the shit out of nethack like I never have before.

I haven't figured out what exactly I want to do with it but it's been fun so far having a little midget debian box with a tiny screen. It forces you to use the console more which is healthy. like eating your vegetables.

I've already borked the OS like 3 times messing with packages and trying to see what window managers run... So at least flashing it is easy with the chrome app.

My only complaint so far is that the video drivers suck.

If the new ones are only $16 and they have the video driver sorted sign me up.

Also do yourself a favor and make sure to change the default passwords ASAP because it's just 'chip/chip' for everything.

They shipped mine as well (original KickStarter backer) fairly soon thereafter the announcements were made.

It's odd there's such a disparity in shipping; I feel as though I've had mine forever.

Same here, I got my CHIP in January from the Kickstarter. However, my VGA adapter that was supposed to arrive in March didn't get here until June, long after I'd lost interest in the platform. Honestly, the RPi3 is a better deal overall, if you consider the value of the respective communities and much broader range of operating system support on the Pi.

I will say this: I wish there was something like the Pocket CHIP for the Pi, without having to build your own from the board up.

I ordered mine when pre-orders were first available and got them probably about two months ago. I would say it was worth the wait and have been really happy with the build quality and software. Hopefully they can figure out their distribution problems because they do have a good product.

I coordinated a group buy of 40 Chip computers and they are all delivered on time in June 2016.

We all had to wait. We bought them in November 2015, but we (like many others) were told from the start that shipping would have begun from June 2016, in order of purchase time.

I had two orders and both were delivered on time.

Edit: I was part of the kickstarter batch.

Yeap, at least I got a refund.