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Category Archives: News
Consumption Friday post
Here’s some of our wares you might want to buy on the traditional mad shopping day. The Black Friday post: it’s good for sales, but embarrassingly commercial. Bus Pirate universal serial interface ($30), LCD adapter ($9), probe cable ($5), and case ($2.50) #twatch network LCD and Twitter scroller ($45 w/LCD, $30 without, shipped) and #twatch […]
Christmas postal delays from China
Get your orders in now if you want Christmas gifts from Seeed Studio. The holidays are really busy for Hongkong Post, and mail from China can take up to 7 additional days. That means your orders from Seeed Studio will not get on the plane as quick as before.You will have to wait 3 – […]
EAGLE open XML format for schematics, PCBs
CadSoft is developing new open, XML-based file formats for the Eagle schematic and PCB editor. This means easier version control, something we gripped about earlier today, and better interoperability among CAD applications. The CadSoft EAGLE development team is developing a new format for schematic, layout and parts libraries that is XML, this means every object […]
#twatch, USB Infrared Toy now CC-BY-SA
To mark the one-year anniversary of Dangerous Prototypes, and timed suspiciously close to the Open Hardware Summit, we’re releasing the #twatch and USB Infrared Toy under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike license. These designs were formally restricted to non-commercial use, now they’re available for any use, including commercial derivatives. All our* projects and content […]
Documentation wiki now available
A new documentation wiki has replaced the old project manual pages. A bunch of stuff has already been moved and formatted for the wiki. The wiki is open for public editing. We could use your help moving and updating guides, and adding important details from the blog comments. If you move something from the blog […]
Occasional outages
The site and forum are up and down right now. It looks like a database server problem. Laughing Squid, our fantastic host, will probably have it fixed shortly. We’ll wait until tomorrow to install the wiki… Update: we appear to be back now.
Introducing Dangerous Prototypes green, yellow, and red label
Our goal is to make stuff we enjoy, and offer it to like-minded hackers at a price we’d pay. We’re always looking for ways to improve the quality of our projects, but we still want to release prototypes for people who accept the risks of open source, enthusiast-designed hardware. We’ve settled on two major changes […]
A few words on Million dollar baby
Adafruit gave a presentation at Foo Camp about businesses that make money selling open source hardware. We’re ecstatic to be included in the ‘approaching a million in revenue’ category with household names like Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories, Bug Labs, and DIY Drones. It went down like this… pt sent an email to a bunch of […]
Vote for new shipping methods at Seeed
Until now the only shipping options at Seeed Studio have been Hongkong Post and DHL. Seeed recently added UPS, and they’re taking a poll of other shipping options you might like to see. If you’d like to get your dangerous prototypes via a different shipping method, head over and cast a vote in the poll.
Seeed manufacturing update
USB IR Toy The USB IR Toy is back from manufacturing and is being prepared to ship now. Parts were ready before the Chinese Spring holiday, but then things stalled, Seeed moved, and they’re about two weeks behind. The good news is that our packages from Seeed are now arriving in less than a week […]
Forum migration complete
The forum migration is complete. You can now access the forum at http://dangerousprototypes.com/forum. All links to the old forum at whereisian.com should forward correctly to the new address with a 301 redirect. Accounts are all the same, and all the attachments were transferred. There is a bug with attachment thumbnails, but we’ll try to get […]
Forum migration starting
Update: migration is complete. You can now access the forum at http://dangerousprototypes.com/forum. The forum will be migrated to http://dangerousprototypes.com/forum starting in a few minutes. Both forums will be locked while we migrate the latest posts. Links to the old URL should be automagically forwarded to the new address.
Welcome to the new host
If you see this message, you’ve landed at our new digs at Laughing Squid. More free PCBs for the first couple commenters, help us test the new install by leaving a comment.
Interview with Seeed Studio on postal delays
Airmail packages from Seeed Studio have been extremely slow lately. We’re currently waiting on circuit boards and other goodies to arrive from Seeed Studio. Our order left Seeed promptly, but delivery is taking weeks. Lots of other people have experienced long shipping times too. We sent Seeed a list of questions to get a handle […]
USB remote control receiver #5 of 2009!
One of Ian’s projects featured at Hack a Day, a USB remote control receiver, was the 5th most popular project of 2009. We’re surprised the Bus Pirate didn’t make that list, but we’re proud of this project too. Our primary music and video player is a PC, we made this device because we needed it, […]
Web platform: kit vs assembled
The web platform, December’s project of the month, is our second to be offered as a kit or as assembled hardware. We guessed that the kit would be the most popular option, but we were totally wrong. Seeed Studio’s latest report shows the assembled version is preferred almost 3 to 1. Is it the SSOP […]
PCBs sent this week
We sent a bunch of PCBs to Seeed Studio’s Fusion service this week. The open source logic analyzer prototype was the most anticipated board, you can get the final hardware for free if you suggest the name. The final design candidates for the PIC high voltage programming adapter went to the board house too. Looking […]
Twitter controlled tree instructable
The Instructables version of the Twitter controlled Christmas tree is now online.
Make's 2009 open source hardware guide
Dangerous Prototypes made it into Make’s open source hardware guide 2009! We got interested in open source hardware while reading Make and Hack a Day, this is a really special accomplishment for us. Our hackable LED Christmas ornament is featured on the cover. The web platform, #twatch, and Bus Pirate are all listed in the […]