Hughes: Introducing the ColorHug open source colorimeter [LWN.net]

Hughes: Introducing the ColorHug open source colorimeter

Posted Nov 14, 2011 23:26 UTC (Mon) by tetromino (subscriber, #33846)
Parent article: Hughes: Introducing the ColorHug open source colorimeter

The pricing makes it non-viable, at least for US residents.

A ColorHug, even with the developer discount, costs $81 with the cheapest shipping option to the US. Pantone Huey (which as Hughes himself states has more features) can be had for as little as $65 with shipping. And the Huey has Windows drivers too, which is important if I want to let my friends or family borrow the colorimeter.

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Hughes: Introducing the ColorHug open source colorimeter

Posted Nov 15, 2011 0:24 UTC (Tue) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

Since it is open hardware you can probably find a way to make it yourself in the USA or find someone willing to do that for you. There is no reason Hughes has to be the only person building the things!

I guess he intends to add more features too, you might want to contact him to find out if Windows drivers on the to-do list, if I were him I personally would not bother with them.

Hughes: Introducing the ColorHug open source colorimeter

Posted Nov 15, 2011 11:49 UTC (Tue) by hpro (subscriber, #74751) [Link]

Well, according to quite a few of the comments on pantones page about the Huey it does not seem to get new updates anymore, making it useless for new-enough systems..

Hughes: Introducing the ColorHug open source colorimeter

Posted Nov 15, 2011 20:13 UTC (Tue) by mattdm (subscriber, #18) [Link]

Richard has said that the current pricing is for prototyping a small run. A much larger run could in theory be much, much cheaper.

Hughes: Introducing the ColorHug open source colorimeter

Posted Nov 16, 2011 1:04 UTC (Wed) by ringerc (subscriber, #3071) [Link]

A $16 difference doesn't seem non-viable to me, especially when comparing to currently in-production colorimeters like the i1Display2 and the (ick) Spyder rather than the obsolete/unsupported Huey.

Sadly for my work I really need a spectro, so a plain colorimeter won't cut it. I may pick one up to get involved with testing and to encourage work on a spectro, though.