There are only 4 HYDRAs left in stock! This product helped launch the Propeller chip, and many nights were spent asking Chip 1000's of questions about the Propeller to generate the documentation for the Propeller itself and use the information to build a "fun, educational platform" to show off the Propeller chip. At the time is was a huge project for myself and Parallax, the book alone pushing 800 pages was the source of many sleepless nights for Stephanie Lindsay editing it, as well as the packaging for the product to mimic the Atari 2600 VHS. And the whole project from my first conversation with Ken Gracey to done had to be around 6 months, talk about sleepless nights!
The HYDRA Kit was the result, and after a decade and 1000's of units sold, there are 4 left :( But, to help them out the door on their journey, I am including all the expansion cards that were built with the HYDRA including:
1. 128K Memory Card (comes with kit).
2. Experimenters Card (comes with kit).
3. HYDRA EtherX Add-On Card ($59.95 value).
4. HYDRA SD Max Storage Card ($49.95 value).
5. HYDRA XTREME 512K SRAM Card ($59.95 value).
Also, we will throw in an additional NES controller, so each kit has 2.
The price of the bundle is the same price as the HYDRA Kit $199.95 -- it can be found on my iC0nstrux.com site here:
HYDRA at iC0nstrux
To get the bundle in checkout, simply add "THE LAST HYDRA" code in the comments, and we will put everything in the box.
Of course, this begs the question, will their be more HYDRAs? Not sure -- I have always wanted to do a HYDRA 2, but we will see if that ever makes sense.
Lastly, a little piece of history. When the Propeller chip was done, there was no documentation on it, so as I said Chip and I got together for a few days, and I took countless notes on the processor, named many parts of its internals, and then wrote an internal document for my Demo coders and Parallax engineers on how the chip worked to get them started. I think after 10 years, everything said in here has been said elsewhere and most of this was copied into the HYDRA Book, but those of you that really love the Propeller might find this piece of history interesting since its the first complete programming manual on the Propeller used to train the internal Parallax engineers and get them excited about what the Propeller could do :) File link below:
De Re HYDRA 2.1
Andre'
The HYDRA Kit was the result, and after a decade and 1000's of units sold, there are 4 left :( But, to help them out the door on their journey, I am including all the expansion cards that were built with the HYDRA including:
1. 128K Memory Card (comes with kit).
2. Experimenters Card (comes with kit).
3. HYDRA EtherX Add-On Card ($59.95 value).
4. HYDRA SD Max Storage Card ($49.95 value).
5. HYDRA XTREME 512K SRAM Card ($59.95 value).
Also, we will throw in an additional NES controller, so each kit has 2.
The price of the bundle is the same price as the HYDRA Kit $199.95 -- it can be found on my iC0nstrux.com site here:
HYDRA at iC0nstrux
To get the bundle in checkout, simply add "THE LAST HYDRA" code in the comments, and we will put everything in the box.
Of course, this begs the question, will their be more HYDRAs? Not sure -- I have always wanted to do a HYDRA 2, but we will see if that ever makes sense.
Lastly, a little piece of history. When the Propeller chip was done, there was no documentation on it, so as I said Chip and I got together for a few days, and I took countless notes on the processor, named many parts of its internals, and then wrote an internal document for my Demo coders and Parallax engineers on how the chip worked to get them started. I think after 10 years, everything said in here has been said elsewhere and most of this was copied into the HYDRA Book, but those of you that really love the Propeller might find this piece of history interesting since its the first complete programming manual on the Propeller used to train the internal Parallax engineers and get them excited about what the Propeller could do :) File link below:
De Re HYDRA 2.1
Andre'