preorder 1 build/ship status

[will_j]

Me too! yay! Looking forward to playing with this great piece of work from Ian. Now my Bus Pirate will have a friend!

[will_j]

Damn..... seems I accidently ordered the kit version by mistake - opened the parcel today to be greeted by a bag of *very small* components :-( :-( :-(   Very disappointed... oh well - guess I'll learn how to solder Surface Mount Devices now!

How will I program it? I do not have a PIC programmer - can I do it with the bus pirate?

[Rubi]

Hi

Mine is still on backorder, because of the missing chip. :(

For smd I use an old waffle iron as reflow oven.
It is the same model Jean from Jee Lab uses:
http://news.jeelabs.org/2009/07/13/my-first-reflow/

Cheers
Rubi

[ian]

@will_j - The Bus Pirate can't program PICs...yet. PM me, I can probably find someone near you who would be willing to program it for you. If you want to send it to me, I will build and program it for you. I was concerned some people accidentally bought the kit because only a few (3?) were sold, most were assembled. I should have sent out a final email to check when I saw the sales stats.

@rubi - I'll check on that, they should have gone out by now. I'm sorry about the delay.

[Rubi]

Hi

@rubi - I'll check on that, they should have gone out by now. I'm sorry about the delay.

Thank you Ian!
No need to be sorry, it is not your fault.

Cheers

[bluesign2k]

Mine arrived today! Woo!
Worked first time too :D

[OY-Canon]

Hi

Got mine today - a preassemled.

Just loaded it with the SD-card webserver demo and both the loader and the demo is running very smooth.
I'm looking forward to see more demos and hopefully also start some programming myself.

Bo :o)

[Scorpia]

My Web board turned up tonight.

Gotta love seed, , get a nice 10% off the enxt order., i wonder if these things stack. :)

anyway time to find a sd card and see what i can do

[ian]

Thanks for the reports, I'm glad they're starting to arrive.

This Thursday I'll have a dsPIC basics tutorial for the web platform. A basic framework for config fuse settings, clock setup, pin setup, UART, peripheral pin select, etc.

[swissMac]

Hi
got mine yesterday, as kits, i somehow ordered assembled, asked for a confirmation that i did order pre-assembed; Yes was the reply and i got kits.  and so it goes another smd soldering exercise I hate smds for this!

board is however a nice size, 

SM

[elafargue]

Got mine today, looking forward to interfacing it with VFD display & radio receiver!

[IPenguin]

I received a preassembled web platform and a kit as ordered on Monday - it was shipped by Seeed Studio on schedule!

[Rubi]

Hi

Finally my board got shipped, hope it leaves China before their  new year feast starts. Somehow I doubt it though.

It seems even China Ems is slow nowadys.
Ordered a Rigol scope and since a week there is no progress, they just confirm that they have received the parcel. Usually Ems takes about three days from pickup to delivery,.... I cant await to get my first scope with coulor lcd. :(

Cheers
Rubi

[ian]

My last Seeed PCB order arrived much faster than the previous. It only took 2 days from Seeed to HongKong, then 4 days after tracking information was available it arrived. I'm really happy about the reduction in time from Seed to HongKong, the HongKong->doorstep portion has always been pretty speedy for me.

[coolnicks]

My web platform and twatch LCD just arrived from seeed. Along with lots of other items :)

Ordered most stuff 4th of Jan, after preorder period took 2 weeks to get here, which seems normal and is what I was expecting