Looking to purchase a slice

gazcbm · February 4, 2019 at 4:31 PM

If anyone is looking to sell, I may be in the market to buy.

Drop me a message

NeXrom · March 11, 2019 at 3:35 PM

what happened to the original Store? Don't they sell the slice anymore?

**chewitt** · March 11, 2019 at 10:11 PM Official Post

Five Ninja's ran a successful kickstarter and shipped product, but RPi2 appeared shortly after the CM(1) based slice appeared which reduced demand and I also have an impression the folks behind the company had crazy-busy day jobs so the venture didn't quite get the attention it needed to survive in the long-term. Last I heard Pimoroni retains a small spares stock to service customers, but otherwise Slice has come to an end. In the future LE will drop support for the dedicated image; it's not worth sustaining for the small number of users. Instead we will roll it into our normal Pi images.

F1Fanb0y · March 19, 2019 at 3:37 PM

Hi chewitt,

Thanks for keeping the slice alive, its much appreciated!

Quote from chewitt

Instead we will roll it into our normal Pi images

If Slice users in the future load a regular Pi image would there likely be any loss of functionality of the Slice specific hardware? e.g. analog sound/SPDIF or LED patterns etc. Or could these be in an addon that would keep the functionality?

Cheers, Mattthew

**chewitt** · March 20, 2019 at 3:59 AM Official Post

The current Slice image is just our standard Raspberry Pi image with an extra overlay loaded via config.txt for ethernet, sound and the LEDs, plus the Kodi service add-on.