Open Hardware Summit is Thursday!

September 30, 2017September 30, 2017 fustiniconference, denver, ohs17, Open Hardware, oshw2 Comments

We are proud to sponsor the 2017 Open Hardware Summit next Thursday, October 5th, in Denver at the McNichols Civic Center!

There is an exciting schedule of speakers! Big thanks to the OHS17 team for all their hard work. Drew, Kelly and Laen are excited to be there (in purple of course).

Please note that this event follows the Summit on Thursday:

Women Who Hack Dinner and Drinks: open to woman id-ing members of the community, must RSVP by Sept 28th. Hosted by Sophi Kravitz of HackaDay and OHS Chair Addie Wagenknecht.

Can’t wait for OHS17? Check out these recordings from OHS16 in Portland:

Workshop: Assembling the Tinusaur Kit in Varna, Bulgaria

August 31, 2017August 31, 2017 fustiniatmel, attiny, attiny85, avr, bulgaria, Crowdfunding, education, soldering, tinusaurLeave a comment

This Saturday, September 2nd, we will have one day workshop for assembling the Tinusaur kits for those who supported our Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign. It will take place in Varna, Bulgaria, our host will be VarnaLab – the local hackerspace. We will learn the basics of electronic components, microcontrollers – ATtiny85 in particular and, of course, […]

via Workshop: Assembling the Tinusaur Kit in Varna, Bulgaria — The Tinusaur Project

Help gamaral’s Cancer Treatment

August 16, 2017August 17, 2017 fustinicamera, DSLR, esp8266, hackaday, iot, raspberry pi, UART, wifi, YouTube1 Comment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny1Jq_yry4M

http://guillermoamaral.com/read/xeno-gc-clone-mini/

https://blog.oshpark.com/2016/02/18/canon-dslr-wifi-remote-with-esp8266/

http://guillermoamaral.com/read/mes/

If you’ve enjoyed Guillermo Amaral’s electronics projects such as the Canon DSLR WiFi Remote, Raspberry Pi PSU, UARTMatic 3000+, Keypad Submodule and many more, then please consider giving to his cancer treatment fund:

Gamaral’s Cancer Treatment

I’ve unfortunately had to flip the bill for my two past surgeries and my on going cancer treatment… and as you can imagine, I’m running out of cash.

If you like my content and/or have found my published projects interesting or useful, please consider sending me some spare change and I’ll be ever so grateful.

Here are couple great project videos by Guillermo on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny1Jq_yry4M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0yAnnqSqlE

Hardware Happy Hour (3H) Chicago this Tuesday

August 12, 2017August 12, 2017 fustini3H, Chicago, Hardware Happy Hour, meetupLeave a comment

This Tuesday night, August 15th, is Hardware Happy Hour (3H) Chicago!

Join Drew Fustini and more at St. Lou’s Assembly (664 West Lake Street):

https://www.meetup.com/Hardware-Happy-Hour-3H-Chicago/events/242484184/

Open Narrowband RF Transceiver

July 15, 2017July 14, 2017 fustiniLeave a comment

We have so many options when we wish to add wireless control to our devices, as technology has delivered a stream of inexpensive devices and breakout boards for our experimentation. A few dollars will secure you all your wireless needs, it seems almost whatever your chosen frequency or protocol. There is a problem with this…

via Hackaday Prize Entry: Open Narrowband RF Transceiver — Hackaday

Want to try flex?

July 14, 2017January 5, 2018 fustiniflex, prototypingLeave a comment

UPDATE 2018-01-03:

We are still testing our flex process. We just sent our second round off to fab this week.

The previous round was delivered to folks starting Hackaday Supercon weekend back in November 2017. Here some more information:

Flex Beta Service Info + FAQ

We were pleased to see Trammell Hudson’s creative Catalan design:

Henner Zeller also designed a very nice LED ring for his DerKnopf project:

For more information, please email: [email protected]

~~We’re looking for a variety of flex designs to test.~~ ~~The specs will be the same as our normal 2 layer service but on Kapton:~~

~~6 mil minimum trace width~~
~~6 mil minimum trace spacing~~
~~10 mil minimum drill~~
~~5 mil annular ring~~

Please send us an email with “flex” in the subject: [email protected]

Friday Hack Chat: Perfect Purple PCBs

June 22, 2017June 22, 2017 fustinihackaday, hackaday.io, hackchatLeave a comment

We’re doing a Hack Chat this Friday at 12:00 pm US PDT!

Friday Hack Chat: Perfect Purple PCBs

Every Friday, we gather ’round the hot air gun over on Hackaday.io, invite some cool people over, and get them to talk about what they do. This is the Hack Chat. It’s become a tradition, and already we’ve had a ton of awesome people walk through our doors.

This week, we’re inviting [Drew Fustini] and [Dan Sheadel] to talk about what OSH Park does, how they became the first place that comes to mind when you need a PCB. They’ll explain why the boards are purple, environmental regulations for PCB manufacturing in the US, shared projects and tips and tricks for creating the perfect board.

OSH Park sponsors the FOSSi Foundation

June 15, 2017June 15, 2017 fustiniFOSSi, FPGA, open silicon, ORCONF, risc-vLeave a comment

The Free and Open Source Silicon (FOSSi) Foundation fosters open source semiconductor design and we’re proud to have become a sponsor! Julius Baxter writes on the FOSSi Foundation blog:

OSH Park sponsors the FOSSi Foundation

We are pleased to announce that OSH Park, the purveyors of perfect purple PCBs, have become sponsors of the FOSSi Foundation’s activities. We are very grateful for their support and would like to recognize this by listing them on our Sponsors page at the Bronze tier.

We are actively looking for sponsors for the Foundation, if you’re interested in learning more about our activities and why we are looking for sponsorship, then please visit our sponsorship page and for more, see our detailed sponsorship proposal document.

More information on the FOSSi Foundation:

Inspired by the success of open source software, the Foundation will help bring about IP and tools of comparable quality to proprietary offerings, and which are developed according to an open source model by a highly collaborative and inclusive community. The FOSSi Foundation will address the issues the field currently faces; fragmentation, legal uncertainty, design quality, and high barriers to entry.

FOSSi has launched LibreCores: