We go through a lot of prototype PCBs, and end up with lots of extras that we’ll never use. Every Sunday we give away a few PCBs from one of our past or future projects, or a related prototype. Our PCBs are made through Seeed Studio’s Fusion board service. This week we’re giving away two […]
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Maker Faire 2011: Bus Pirate
The Bus Pirate is an open source hacker multi-tool that talks to electronic stuff. It’s got a bunch of features an intrepid hacker might need to prototype their next project. This manual is an effort to link all available Bus Pirate information in one place. Get your own handy Bus Pirate for $30, including world-wide […]
Maker Faire 2011: USB Infrared Toy v2
This is an easy one. One click start’s Jawi’s impressive OLS client and anyone can point, shoot, and visualize a remote control signal. A more indepth demo could clone a signal and play it back to a second IR Toy.
Maker Faire 2011: Bus Pirate demo board
We have a demo board for the Bus Pirate, a bunch of different parts that are easy to explore. It’s simple to demo an EEPROM write/read, etc, but it might be too involved for a hands-on display. Get your own handy Bus Pirate for $30, including world-wide shipping. Also available from our friendly distributors.
Maker Faire 2011: Logic Sniffer
Connect an OLS to a device and record the output. Jawi’s OLS client is intuitive and easy to use.
Maker Faire Setup
San Mateo Fairgrounds are buzzing tonight with the preparations for the Bay Area Maker Faire. Here’s a behind-the-scenes peek at the setup and festivities, including booths from some of our favorite sites, interesting vehicles and creatures on display, and one exceptionally large batch of paella. More photos below the fold.
Pre-Faire SanFran Taco Crawl
We have a real passion for good Mexican food. Before the beginning of Maker Faire we took it upon ourselves to sample as many different tacos as possible from SF’s famous Mission District taquerias. We started at 16th and Mission, walked to 24th and all the way down. We also had our first celebrity citing […]
Free oscilloscope v1 PCB via Facebook comments
Every Friday we give away some extra PCBs via Facebook. The first few people who comment on this at Facebook get a free PCB. More PCBs via Twitter on Tuesday and the blog every Sunday. Sorry this didn’t work out last week, the Facebook plugin crashed on us. This week we’re giving away two Dangerous […]
Week in (p)review: May 20, 2011
Facebook free PCB Friday is on the way. Don’t forget to share your current project in the comments or the forum. Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week: Updated downloads for the Logic Shrimp, LCD Backpack FT232 Universal and LCD Backpack Nokia color USB IR Toy v2 free PCB build Bus Pirate […]
Maker Faire 2011: Hands-on DIY festival
The internet situation pre-Maker Faire Bay Area has been pretty bad. Worse than bad. Today we’re in the conference hotel though, and there’s wired and wireless internet aplenty. If you’re going to Maker Faire please stop by the Seeed Studio booth and say hi, we’re right next to the central Maker stage in the main […]
Logic Shrimp release package v2.0
Over the last few weeks we did a massive cleanup and reorganization of our SVN code repository. Most projects now follow a standard directory structure. All our in-progress and stalled project files are now completely open and available to anyone. We also included all the manufacturing resources used to initiate production at Seeed, and the […]
Free Digikey shipping tip
bearmos shared a tip for free Digikey shipping in the US and Canada: Here’s how to get it: 1. Add items into your shopping cart like you normally would (make sure you’re logged in when doing this). 2. Print it out. 3. Write a check for the total + tax in your area. 4. Snail […]
FT232 Universal LCD Backpack release package v1
Over the last few weeks we did a massive cleanup and reorganization of our SVN code repository. Most projects now follow a standard directory structure. All our in-progress and stalled project files are now completely open and available to anyone. We also included all the manufacturing resources used to initiate production at Seeed, and the […]
99 dollar PCI-E FPGA kit
riktw tipped us to a LatticeECP3 Versa development kit: i got this in a lattice newsletter per e-mail today. a big PCB with a big FPGA and a fast PCI-E connection for just 99 dollars. after some googeling i found the quickstart PDF from it, it looks like good value for money but not for […]
USB IR Toy v2 free PCB build
schazamp built a free USB IR Toy PCB. If you build a free PCB we’ll send you another one! Blog about it, post a picture on Flicker, whatever – we’ll send you a coupon code for the free PCB drawer. You can get IR Toy v2 for $22.05, including world wide shipping.
Free oscilloscope PCB to RT #4 & #11 @dangerousproto
Every Tuesday we give away some extra PCBs via Twitter. This post was announced on twitter. The 4th and 11th person who retweet it get free PCBs. We changed the approach this week due to auto-retweeters grabbing boards first. Thanks for the heads-up on auto-retweeters JT! Love it, hate it? Let us know in the […]
Color LCD Backpack release package v1
Over the last few weeks we did a massive cleanup and reorganization of our SVN code repository. Most projects now follow a standard directory structure. All our in-progress and stalled project files are now completely open and available to anyone. We also included all the manufacturing resources used to initiate production at Seeed, and the […]
Bus Pirate breakout board
schazamp is hosting a group buy of his Bus Pirate breakout board in the forum. I’ve got a few people who are interested in this board, and I’ve been thinking of making another (small) production run. Is anyone else interested in a PCB? They would be $3 or $4, (depending on how many I do) […]
Maker Faire travel and reduced support
We’ll be at the Seeed Studio booth at Bay Area Maker Faire on May 21st and 22nd. If you’re at Maker Faire please stop by and see us in the main hall, along with the Gadget Factory, and other awesome makers. All weekend we’ll have on-the-scene coverage of the Faire. If you’d like us to […]
CPLD dev-board button bouncieness
voidptr tested the bouncieness of the CPLD development board button and found it to be pretty good. XSVF and SVF files are available to download if you’d like to program the CPLD and try it yourself. that little switch is not bouncy … 1 bounce each 4 or 5 clicks … a lot better that […]