Microprocessor about the cost and size of a pack of gum by Annika O'Brien

Hey, I've been packaging more boards and am planning to ship this week and all of next week. Quite a few people have asked about the USB boards and the... Read more

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Jul 2013

July 9, 2013

Boards arrived and are almost ready to ship

So, the boards arrived! Each chip is bootloaded and seated into the board, then tested and placed in individual ESD bags.

The picture depicts 2 20-gallon tubs, roughly 1/2 the... Read more

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Jun 2013

June 13, 2013

Arrival of new boards & Address updates

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May 2013

May 22, 2013

Quick update

I am working through to get the next batch prepped and shipped. As soon as your order is processed and shipped, it will be marked as shipped in Kickstarter (I... Read more

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May 1, 2013

Shipping info

I am getting tons of emails about people wanting to increase their pledge amount, change their shipping info or find out when their board ships.

I cannot increase the pledge... Read more

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Apr 2013

April 30, 2013

Got another shipment of Atmel chips

Hey guys, thanks for the support and patience. I received a bunch more Atmel chips and will be programming them tomorrow, then packaging and shipping out. :)

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April 17, 2013

Ready to ship 2nd batch soon

Hey everyone! I'll soon be getting in an order of Atmel chips and after testing the next 1,000 boards, they will be ready to ship.

For those who've inquired about... Read more

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Mar 2013

March 31, 2013

Board update

A test project using a shift register with the new board.

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March 21, 2013

New boards are in!

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March 21, 2013

Getting ready to ship!!!

Hey guys (and gals)! Super busy getting the boards together today. So sorry it's been a few days, I've just been swamped with emails.

Here's a couple of photos of... Read more

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March 17, 2013

Successfully raised $24,553 with 709 backers

March 7, 2013

Alcohol sensor MQ-3

We decided to hook something up a little more exotic so we found one of these MQ-3 sensors lying around and decided to make an auditory alcohol sensor. It's really... Read more

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March 7, 2013

Board driving a servo

Lots of people have been asking me about servos so here is a quick demo of the board taking values from a potentiometer and then using them to drive a... Read more

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March 7, 2013

Photoresistor controlling a small fan

Hey, so we wanted to make the projects progressively more challenging so we are hooking up two components: a small photoresistor and a small computer fan. We wrote a simple... Read more

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March 7, 2013

Using speaker output on the new board

In this video I'm hooking up a speaker to the new board. You can hear the difference in the type of speakers used.

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March 7, 2013

Connecting LEDs to the new board

I'm hooking up the LED and resistor I just soldered to Analog Input 0 on the board.

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March 7, 2013

First look at the new board

Just throwing up a quick video showing how to do a simple LED Blink Sketch using the new board.

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Feb 2013

February 19, 2013

Multiple orders

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February 19, 2013

Stretch Goal: $4000

We were originally intending to make a super low cost board for our LA Robotics Club members to affordably experiment with an extendable and lightweight Arduino clone platform, but it... Read more

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February 17, 2013

Pre-production beta prototype

Here's a picture of the old version of the board before the one we have now. We replaced a few of the through hole resistors with surface mounts and we... Read more

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February 15, 2013

Project launched