Category Archives: Workshop Update

Made changes to Open Hardware Summit presentation based on comments, thanks everyone! Received second H1N recording device for our workshop video at Sjaak’s place this weekend. Making contact with New York City hackerspaces for our upcoming visit. If you’re planning to go to Maker Faire or Open Hardware Summit in NYC you are welcome to […]

Finished Open Hardware Summit presentation draft and did a first run through for today’s workshop video. Ordered another H1N recorder for a workshop video with Sjaak this weekend. Talked to a casting director about DP being on a TV show. That’s not happening, this time. Mailed out a ton of stuff. If you’re still waiting, […]

Received parts for giant nix I blob power supplies. Started building 4 so there’s enough current for a bunch of different tubes. Working on ATX PSU v1.3 board update, placing bottom lables, LEDs.

Believe it or not looks like Radio Shack may let us film a geek tour stop in their new york store. Still working on the smaller locations. Finished up a draft of the open hardware summit presentation. It will probably be this weeks workshop video.

Last year’s sponsors were invited back for the 2012 Open 7400 Logic Competition. The competition goes “public” September 3rd. Ordered parts for giant nixie thing we hope to take to Maker Faire New York. We were accepted to the faire and are good to go next month. Reached out to Radio Shack to see if […]

Setup the alternate look for the Open 7400 Competition mini site. Still a bit to do. Also fixed a problem with the social media icons under Firefox latest versions as long as we were in there. Next week we have a bunch of scratch and dent projects to give away. These are working projects, but […]

Edited Beers in Bunnie’s Workshop video. Please check it out. Finished the “nixie pile” driver and holder boards, and sent them to Seeed Studio’s PCB service. They’ll be black. It seems Maker Faire New York acceptance letters went out today, we will be there with Louis from the San Francisco taco crawl and videos, and […]

Began plotting the Box of Nixies project. This is the nixie socket holder board for IN12s and IV22s (yes, VFDs actually). A universal driver board will sit behind it and all the other various nixie holders. Boards will probably go out today or tomorrow. Started cataloging workshop videos on a new wiki page. Episodes now […]

With about a month until Maker Faire New York we’re scrambling to get things together. We’ve contacted some shops about showing up for a tour today. A few bugs in the IR Toy code were isolated. Squashing will continue on Friday. We’re also considering building a huge nixie thing with all the tubes sitting around. […]

Today we evaluated a bunch of new project designs, and started on the 7400 Contest mini site. There will be an official announcement soon, but we can reveal there is already one really exciting sponsor on board. Time to book hotels and plan any eating challenges for the Open Hardware Summit and Maker Faire in […]

Today we worked on Bus pirate v4 firmware, cut some video for next week, and started cleaning the workshop. Sjaak’s gift from our recent food crawl disappeared into the morass. Update: found it! Also – hating on the Facebook push plugin. It’s our fault for misconfiguring it. There’s a ton of options across all our user […]

Today we finished the Singapore Maker Faire video. Sent out thank yous. Refreshed the Logic Sniffer wiki a bit and moved older stuff to a new page. Maker Faire New York applications are due tomorrow (August 17th). We submitted a request for a table and a presentation proposal. We’ll also be giving a 10 minute […]