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Free PCB store: New look preview
Soon the free PCB store will get an update. This is a screenshot of the new look on a default Zencart install. A few bugs remain, but it should be up today or tomorrow. Over the next few weeks the entire site will get an update. All our mock-ups and work in progress are posted […]
CircuitBee schematic-tube
Ben Delarre writes to inform us of his new online library/archiving service for schematics: I’ve recently released CircuitBee which is a bit like YouTube, only for electronic schematics. It lets you upload KiCAD (or Eagle with the help of an export script) format schematics to our service, which then creates a web-embeddable version of them […]
Blog theme update
After two years with a default look, Dangerous Prototypes finally has as new theme. It’s based on Starkers blank theme with custom styling. Here’s our design goals, stolen shamelessly from our favorite sites: A smaller header with less fluff before the content. A couple bold, direct links at the top to different parts of the […]
WordPress plugin: Word Linker
We try to link the first mention of our projects and other common terms in every blog post. It takes a lot of time and makes blogging boring. We developed Word Linker plugin to automatically link keywords in blog posts. It saves a ton of time for commonly linked terms. There are several plugins out […]
phpBB3 mobile device detection script
When we setup the phpBB3 mobile theme for the forum we edited the code to exclude a few large-screen devices. We noticed that the browser detection script is taken from non-commercial licensed junk code. The mobile detection script author wants $50/year for these 10 lines of highly resource intensive preg_match statements. Come on! That is […]
Dangerous Prototypes: New look
Over the last few days we’ve been experimenting with a new site theme. You may see it click on and off a few times before it’s completely ready. We’ve been using a slightly modified Tarski theme since the beginning. The new look isn’t a drastic departure, but it does have some new stuff: A couple […]
Interview with Dangerous Prototypes at Open Source Hardware Junkies
Last week Ian did a Skype interview with Open Source Hardware Junkies. It’s up today, listen in if that’s your kind of thing: Need to figure out a chip…fast? Bus Pirate may be just what you have been looking for. Designed by Dangerous Prototypes, the Bus Pirate is a universal bus interface that can slash […]
Seeed Studio 3 year anniversary sale in progress!
See the Twitter feed for the current discounts.
Update twitter status from LabVIEW
Use Twitter with LabVIEW VI: Twitter provides a public API which is based on HTTP requests (both GET and POST). The attached VI builds the appropriate HTTP request and sends it to the Twitter server using the TCP functions available in LabVIEW.
Dangerous Prototypes: About us
Dangerous Prototypes is 2 years old this month. We updated our about page with a bit of history and answers to common questions. What do you guys do? Dangerous Prototypes makes a new open source hardware project every month. We like to make hacking and development tools, but we make toys and obscure internet-influenced art […]
Dangerous Prototypes has never and will never show ads, period
My name is Heather and I am a Marketing Administrator for (removed). We have a client that may be interested in advertising on your site dangerousprototypes.com. Is there a good person to contact about options and rates? There’s ads on the web? Dangerous Prototypes has never displayed ads or participated in paid referral programs, and we […]
Wiki now uses forum logins
You can now sign in to the documentation wiki with your forum user name and password. Anyone with a forum account can add pages, fix errors, and make updates. For the last couple months wiki registrations have been disabled. Wiki spammers are relentless, recaptcha and bad behavior only slowed the stupidest bots. It’s a lot […]
Dangerous Prototypes: Partlist inventory
In a rare feat of organization, our revamped partlist inventory has every component used in our projects. Check it out the next time you’re trying to decipher a vague free PCB schematic that’s still in development. It’s inspired by Adafruit’s partlist, but with mostly surface mount parts. It’s full of notes about stuff we always […]
This site powered by 100% renewable energy
Fun fact: our new server at Hetzner is powered by 100% renewable energy. The wind must be blowing and the sun shining, because the server survived its first slashdotting yesterday. Image: Magnus Manske (CC BY-SA)
Server status: Off the cloud
A few weeks ago we had some erratic down time, followed by a migration to a dedicated server. Things are looking great now. Pingdom says our average response time has gone from 1500ms to 430ms. A ton of traffic from a single IP address first knocked us offline during the morning, US time. Our ISP […]
Server hosting Adafruit style
Adafruit took pity on us and shared some valuable web hosting experience: After hearing about Dangerous Prototype’s search&move to a new hosting provider, we thought we’d post up about our hosting experiences! We currently use ServInt for our hosting provider. They’re what we would classify as a ‘full service’ provider. Basically they own the computer, […]
“Welcome to the new server” free PCBs
Welcome to the new server. Please help us out by leaving a comment below. We’ll send out some free PCB coupons, and double coupons for each new reported problem. Forum, blog, wiki, and free PCB store are all open again. Please report any problems in the comments or the forum. Migration was a bit dicey. […]
Server migration in process
UPDATE#2: We think this is the new server :) Welcome. —— UPDATE#1: Forum will be down for sync now. —– It’s time to move to a fancy new server. Comments are locked while we sync the blog database, and the free PCB store is not accepting orders. Next we’ll move the wiki, and finally the […]
#failwhale @dangerousprototypes II
Blog is hobbling along. Forum and documentation wiki are doing ok. Cloud Flare didn’t help much, we’re migrating servers now. We’ll be up and down over the next day or two.