Last batch of ColorHugALS

I’ve got 9 more ColorHugALS devices in stock and then when they are sold they will be no more for sale. With all the supplier costs going recently up my “sell at cost price” has turned into “make a small loss on each one” which isn’t sustainable. It’s all OpenHardware, both hardware design and the firmware itself so if someone wanted to start building them for sale they would be doing it with my blessing. Of course, I’m happy to continue supporting the existing sold devices into the distant future.

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In part the original goal is fixed, the kernel and userspace support for the new SensorHID protocol works great and ambient light functionality works out of the box for more people on more hardware. I’m slightly disappointed more people didn’t get involved in making the ambient lighting algorithms more smart, but I guess it’s quite a niche area of development.

Plus, in the Apple product development sense, killing off one device lets me start selling something else OpenHardware in the future. :)

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Richard has over 10 years of experience developing open source software. He is the maintainer of GNOME Software, PackageKit, GNOME Packagekit, GNOME Power Manager, GNOME Color Manager, colord, and UPower and also contributes to many other projects and opensource standards. Richard has three main areas of interest on the free desktop, color management, package management, and power management. Richard graduated a few years ago from the University of Surrey with a Masters in Electronics Engineering. He now works for Red Hat in the desktop group, and also manages a company selling open source calibration equipment. Richard's outside interests include taking photos and eating good food.

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