Category Archives: Workshop Update

Today we pretty much focused on getting the video out on time. The open 7400 competition deadline is over, so in the next few days we’ll publish all the entries. Once they are published our judges will dive in and announce the Winners on November 10. Image by Runner1616: CC BY-SA

Sorting video. Videos will be released over three weeks, the first will be Mumbai on Thursday. Ian registered a new company that will partner with us to retail experimental PCBs, projects, and other stuff too small or random to go into Seeed Studio. Our new partner will take money and ship orders – basically the […]

Emirates upgraded us to business class on the second floor of the A380, it was sweet! Lay flat bed, and a well stocked bar in the back of the plane. Although the baggage reclaim was a pain as the A380 just carries too many people. We modeled and rendered the FT230X Breakout Board. This proved […]

Today will be marked as the stone age day of Dangerous Prototypes. While visiting Kochi, and the rhydoLABZ factory on our Global Geek Tour of India, we had no data coverage so we were incommunicado. Similarly in the workshop internet went down, and we were unable to bring you the regular compliment of posts. We’re […]

Today was day two of the Bangalore leg of out Global Geek Tour of India. We’re of for Kochi, and the rhydoLABZ factory tour. Check out live updates on Twitter, or wait ’till we post them on the blog. We continue working on xQFP breakout boards. Today we tackled the 0.65mm, and the 0.50mm pad […]

Today we’re on the second leg of our Global Geek Tour of India. We got together with other hackers from Bangalore and toured the city’s electronics sights. We started in the Jaaga hackerspace and continued to the SP road markets. We’re continuing work on the xQFP proto-board updates.

Today we had rested up from our Mumbai leg of the Global Geek Tour of India. Out of Mumbai and onwards to Bangalore. Great time and great video. Thanks to everyone who joined us! Flew to Bangalore for part two of the tour. Enjoying the Indian driving style. Doesn’t bother the drivers, pedestrians, or Ian, […]

We ran around Mumbai. Avoided the drum sellers like the plague. Also didn’t but the giant inflatable clubs. That’s what we call success. Did not get killed by wild traffic. Bought Sjaak an LCD, touch screen, and a really wild joystick. Bought the fabled counterfeit flash drive. 32 GB for $2…. yeah right. Well investigate […]

Final preps before our Global Geek Tour of India. Packing, and check in, done. We finalized the presentation we’ll hold at the Center for Internet & Society office in Bangalore on October 24th. The ongoing saga with the TFT breakout board continues. We’re contemplating how to support the BF flag in the HD44780 emulator version.

Today we concentrated on getting the Workshop Video out. Got two nifty tubes of scratch and dent chips from Microchip. Bus Blaster v3, and v4 finished validation and are going to manufacturing. We continue working on the TFT carrier board, with a preliminary schematic pictured above. This one features a PIC24F microcontroller, and an SD […]

Wish we had some exciting news, but today we’re just jugging wholesale, emails, and whatnot. We did get a chance to update the Soldering Iron Driver documentation for an upcoming start of PCB sales at Seeed for $7. In that respect, we also started a 3D model of the same (pictured above). We’re also working […]

Bought new batteries for the camera. Lots of India planning and correspondence – please confirm if you are joining. Talked with DP friend Tully (from Shenzhen Geek Tour video) about our upcoming trip to Shenzhen. We are designing a few more variations of a TFT breakout board, some with only 5v-3.3v level translators, some with […]

Geek tour planning. Getting USB IDs from Microchip. Finalizing Bus Blaster v3, and v4 for a video this week. We emailed everyone who wrote, or commented about the geek tour with latest details, if you didn’t get an email please follow up through the contact form. Worked on today’s 3D model, and rendered it. We […]

We reshuffled the Global Geek Tour of India schedule a bit at the last minute. Added the Google layer map of the tour as well. Cleared pending forum support requests, thanks to everyone in the community who helps out on the forum and wiki! We searched, found, and wrote about the app notes that will […]

Retrieved China visa. We got USB IDs sublicensed from Microchip, that are ready to go in a few new projects including the Part Ninja, and the 1.8” TFT LCD backpack. We’re working on a few bootloaders, and making a video/how-to about them at the same time. We starded a development page for the Logic Shrimp v2. […]

Today we worked on editing Tomorow’s video. In case you’re wondering the video’s topic is video editing. We also put together today’s basic tutorial for LEDs. We worked on the 1.8” TFT breakout board as well. We added a joystick, a protection diode, and moved some capacitors around.

All mail backlog from Maker Faire should be cleared. Applied for a new China visas for an upcoming trip to Seeed, super easy but the commute is time consuming. This is the last one that Ian can fit into his passport without visiting the embassy for extra pages. Today we put together the initial schedule […]

Today we worked on today’s 3D model of the VFD tube board. Due to a large number of surfaces in this model, our PC had trouble coping with it. But we’re proud of the final render result. We added a few components to our library. One of which can be seen in the picture above. […]

Jetlag, still on New York time. Finished the video just in time, then slept in till noon. Desperately trying to followup with all the awesome new friends from New York. Next week we’ll officially announce the schedule for the Global Geek Tour: India (why not?) edition. We’re already meeting up with a half-dozen forum regulars […]